Interplay between chiral media and perfect electromagnetic conductor plates: repulsive vs. attractive Casimir force transitions
arXiv:2301.12870 · doi:10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.5.213
Abstract
We determine the Casimir energies and forces in a variety of potentially experimentally viable setups, consisting of parallel plates made of perfect electromagnetic conductors (PEMCs), which generalize perfect electric conductors (PECs) and perfect magnetic conductors (PMCs), and Weyl semimetals (WSMs). Where comparison is possible, our results agree with the Casimir forces calculated elsewhere in the literature, albeit with different methods. We find a multitude of known but also new cases where repulsive Casimir forces are in principle possible, but restricting the setup to PECs combined with the aforementioned WSM geometry, results in purely attractive Casimir forces.
arXiv comment8 pages, 7 figures
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