Search for new physics with atoms and molecules

MS Safronova, D Budker, D DeMille, DFJ Kimball… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
This article reviews recent developments in tests of fundamental physics using atoms and
molecules, including the subjects of parity violation, searches for permanent electric dipole …

Materials perspective on Casimir and van der Waals interactions

LM Woods, DAR Dalvit, A Tkatchenko… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
Interactions induced by electromagnetic fluctuations, such as van der Waals and Casimir
forces, are of universal nature present at any length scale between any types of systems …

The Casimir effect in microstructured geometries

AW Rodriguez, F Capasso, SG Johnson - Nature photonics, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract In 1948, Hendrik Casimir predicted that a generalized version of van der Waals
forces would arise between two metal plates due to quantum fluctuations of the …

Phonon heat transfer across a vacuum through quantum fluctuations

KY Fong, HK Li, R Zhao, S Yang, Y Wang, X Zhang - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Heat transfer in solids is typically conducted through either electrons or atomic vibrations
known as phonons. In a vacuum, heat has long been thought to be transferred by radiation …

Observation of the thermal Casimir force

AO Sushkov, WJ Kim, DAR Dalvit, SK Lamoreaux - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
Quantum theory predicts the existence of the Casimir force between macroscopic bodies, a
force arising from the zero-point energy of electromagnetic field modes around them. A …

Improvement for testing the gravitational inverse-square law at the submillimeter range

WH Tan, AB Du, WC Dong, SQ Yang, CG Shao… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We improve the test of the gravitational inverse-square law at the submillimeter range by
suppressing the vibration of the electrostatic shielding membrane to reduce the disturbance …

Finite-temperature Casimir effect for graphene

IV Fialkovsky, VN Marachevsky, DV Vassilevich - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We adopt the Dirac model for quasiparticles in graphene and calculate the finite-
temperature Casimir interaction between a suspended graphene layer and a parallel …

Tunable Sign Change of Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Structures

D Hou, Z Qiu, J Barker, K Sato, K Yamamoto, S Vélez… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) has been investigated in Pt/NiO/YIG structures in a wide
range of temperature and NiO thickness. The SMR shows a negative sign below a …

New experimental limits on non-Newtonian forces in the micrometer range

AO Sushkov, WJ Kim, DAR Dalvit, SK Lamoreaux - Physical Review Letters, 2011 - APS
We report measurements of the short-range forces between two macroscopic gold-coated
plates using a torsion pendulum. The force is measured for separations between 0.7 and 7 μ …

Trapped-ion probing of light-induced charging effects on dielectrics

M Harlander, M Brownnutt, W Hänsel… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We use a string of confined 40 Ca+ ions to measure perturbations to a trapping potential
which are caused by the light-induced charging of an antireflection-coated window and of …