Stronger limits on hypothetical Yukawa interactions in the 40--8000 nm range

Abstract

We report the results of new differential force measurements between a test mass and rotating source masses of gold and silicon to search for forces beyond Newtonian gravity at short separations. The technique employed subtracts the otherwise dominant Casimir force at the outset and, when combined with a lock-in amplification technique, leads to a significant improvement (up to a factor $10^3$) over existing limits on the strength (relative to gravity) of a putative force in the 40--8000 nm interaction range.

New version, 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted in Physical Review Letters

References in corpus (6)

• Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale
• Novel constraints on light elementary particles and extra-dimensional physics from the Casimir effect
• Improved constraints on non-Newtonian forces at 10 microns
• Review of short-range gravity experiments in the LHC era
• Application of the proximity force approximation to gravitational and Yukawa-type forces
• Hide it to see it better: a robust setup to probe the thermal Casimir effect

Cited by in corpus (101)

• Search for New Physics with Atoms and Molecules
• Testing General Relativity with stellar orbits around the supermassive black hole in our Galactic center
• Force and acceleration sensing with optically levitated nanogram masses at microkelvin temperatures
• Searching for new physics using optically levitated sensors
• Isoelectronic determination of the thermal Casimir force
• Detecting Casimir torque with an optically levitated nanorod
• Cornering the axion with CP-violating interactions
• Measurement of the Casimir Force between 0.2 and 8 mum: Experimental Procedures and Comparison with Theory
• Casimir Puzzle and Casimir Conundrum: Discovery and Search for Resolution
• Bounding Quantum Dark Forces
• Distinguishing Dirac and Majorana neutrinos by their gravi-majoron decays
• The Warped Dark Sector
• Precision measurements of the gradient of the Casimir force between ultra clean metallic surfaces at larger separations
• Measuring gravity by holding atoms
• Testing local Lorentz invariance with short-range gravity
• A Search for deviations from the inverse square law of gravity at nm range using a pulsed neutron beam
• Tests of Fundamental Quantum Mechanics and Dark Interactions with Low Energy Neutrons -- Extended Version
• Search for non-Newtonian interactions at micrometer scale with a levitated test mass
• Probing "long-range" neutrino-mediated forces with atomic and nuclear spectroscopy
• Particle Physics at the European Spallation Source
• Spin-dependent exotic interactions
• The Classical Symmetron Force in Casimir Experiments
• Improved constraints on the coupling constants of axion-like particles to nucleons from recent Casimir-less experiment
• Near-field GHz rotation and sensing with an optically levitated nanodumbbell
• Constraints on axion-like particles and non-Newtonian gravity from measuring the difference of Casimir forces
• Apparatus for measuring the thermal Casimir force at large distances
• Probing axion mediated fermion--fermion interaction by means of entanglement
• How to observe the giant thermal effect in the Casimir force for graphene systems
• Constraints on non-Newtonian gravity and axionlike particles from measuring the Casimir force in nanometer separation range
• Charting the Fifth Force Landscape
• Thermal effect in the Casimir force for graphene and graphene-coated substrates: Impact of nonzero mass gap and chemical potential
• The State of the Art in Constraining Axion-to-Nucleon Coupling and Non-Newtonian Gravity from Laboratory Experiments
• Constraints on Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter with Quadratic Couplings
• Next generation design and prospects for CANNEX
• Prospects for Searching Thermal Effects, Non-Newtonian Gravity and Axion-Like Particles: Cannex Test of the Quantum Vacuum
• Gravitational Wave Echo of Relaxion Trapping
• CP-violating axion interactions in effective field theory
• Switching and amplifying three-body Casimir effects
• The Casimir pressure between metallic plates out of thermal equilibrium: Proposed test for the relaxation properties of free electrons
• Recent breakthrough and outlook in constraining the non-Newtonian gravity and axion-like particles from Casimir physics
• Non-Newtonian gravity in strange quark stars and constraints from the observations of PSR J0740+6620 and GW170817
• Isolelectronic apparatus to probe the thermal Casimir force
• Anisotropic cubic curvature couplings
• Constraints from compact star observations on non-Newtonian gravity in strange stars based on a density dependent quark mass model
• The Neutrino Casimir Force
• Relaxion Dark Matter from Stochastic Misalignment
• No-slip boundary conditions for electron hydrodynamics and the thermal Casimir pressure
• Wake forces in a background of quadratically coupled mediators
• Calculations of the dominant long-range, spin-independent contributions to the interaction energy between two nonrelativistic Dirac fermions from double-boson exchange of spin-0 and spin-1 bosons with spin-dependent couplings
• Dark Matter Axions, Non-Newtonian Gravity and Constraints on them from Recent Measurement of the Casimir Force in the Micrometer Separation Range
• Casimir interaction of two dielectric half spaces with Chern-Simons boundary layers
• Leading bounds on micro- to picometer fifth forces from neutron star cooling
• Proof of Principle for Ramsey-type Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy with qBounce
• Background-Induced Forces from Dark Relics
• Constraining axion coupling constants from measuring the Casimir interaction between polarized test bodies
• Beyond-proximity-force-approximation Casimir force between two spheres at finite temperature II: plasma versus Drude modeling, grounded versus isolated spheres
• Zero Casimir Force in Axion Electrodynamics and the Search for a New Force
• Revealing short-range non-Newtonian gravity through Casimir-Polder shielding
• Light Dark Matter Annihilation and Scattering in LHC Detectors
• Gravitational Positivity for Phenomenologists: Dark Gauge Boson in the Swampland
• Nano-scale thermal transfer -- an invitation to fluctuation electrodynamics
• Probing dark gauge boson with observations from neutron stars
• Progress in constraining axion and non-Newtonian gravity from the Casimir effect
• Universal experimental test for the role of free charge carriers in thermal Casimir effect within a micrometer separation range
• Chameleon Field in a Spherical Shell System
• Long-range parity non-conserving electron-nucleon interaction
• The Nature of Dark Energy and Constraints on Its Hypothetical Constituents from Force Measurements
• Casimir Tests of Scalar-Tensor Theories
• Effects of the long-range neutrino-mediated force in atomic phenomena
• Searching for New Interactions at Sub-micron Scale Using the Mossbauer Effect
• Internal Consistency of Neutron Coherent Scattering Length Measurements from Neutron Interferometry and from Neutron Gravity Reflectometry for Exotic Yukawa Analyses
• Effects of gravity in extra dimensions in atomic phenomena
• Nonperturbative theory of atom-surface interaction: Corrections at short separations
• Apparatus to probe the influence on the Casimir effect of the Mott-Anderson metal-insulator transition in doped semiconductors
• Testing Gravity and Predictions Beyond the Standard Model at Short Distances: The Casimir Effect
• Extra-dimensional axion patterns
• Neutrino force at all length scales
• How to strengthen constraints on non-Newtonian gravity from measuring the lateral Casimir force
• Probing light scalars with not quite black holes
• Proposal for a Quantum Mechanical Test of Gravity at Millimeter Scale
• A single-atom level mechano-optical transducer for ultrasensitive force sensing
• Mapping the Weak-Field Limit of Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
• Axion Window on New Macroscopic Forces
• Entanglement witnesses mediated via axionLike particles
• Detecting Nanometer-Scale New Forces with Coherent Neutron Scattering
• Experimental Search for Non-Newtonian Forces in the Nanometer Scale with Slow Neutrons
• The Radion as a Dark Matter Candidate
• Microscopic composite systems bound by strong gravity in extra dimensions as candidates for dark matter
• Some remarks on axion dark matter, dark energy and energy of the quantum vacuum
• Constraining Yukawa-type interaction and coupling constant of axionlike particles to nucleons from recent measurement of the Casimir-Polder interaction
• Tensor gauge fields and dark matter in general relativity with fermions
• Testing weakest force with coldest spot
• Optomechanical vector sensing of new forces at 6 micron separation
• Quasi-local stress-tensor formalism and the Casimir effect
• Quantum vacuum under mixed boundary conditions: the case for curved spacetime
• Enhanced sensing of non-Newtonian effects at ultrashort range with exceptional points in optomechanical systems
• Weakly bound molecules as sensors of new gravitylike forces
• Search for an exotic parity-odd spin- and velocity-dependent interaction using a magnetic force microscope
• Casimir energy for $N$ constant conductivity $\delta$-plates with a neural network perception
• What do we know about Lorentz Symmetry?
• Probing New Forces with Nuclear Clocks