Demonstration of an Unusual Thermal Effect in the Casimir Force from Graphene
arXiv:2104.13598 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.206802
Abstract
We report precision measurements of the gradient of the Casimir force between an Au-coated sphere and graphene sheet deposited on a silica plate. The measurement data are compared with exact theory using the polarization tensor found in the framework of the Dirac model including effects of the nonzero chemical potential and energy gap of the graphene sample with no fitting parameters. The very good agreement between experiment and theory demonstrates the unusually big thermal effect at separations below 1 mum which has never been observed for conventional 3D materials. Thus, it is confirmed experimentally that for graphene the effective temperature is determined by the Fermi velocity rather than by the speed of light.
7 pages, 2 figures; accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.; several typos are corrected
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