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Perspectives on Quantum Friction, Self-Propulsion, and Self-Torque
Kimball A. Milton, Nima Pourtolami, Gerard Kennedy
This paper provides an overview of the nonequilibrium fluctuational forces and torques acting on a body either in motion or at rest relative to another body or to the thermal vacuu…
Spontaneous Torque on an Inhomogeneous Chiral Body out of Thermal Equilibrium
Kimball A. Milton, Nima Pourtolami, Gerard Kennedy
In a previous paper we showed that an inhomogeneous body in vacuum will experience a spontaneous force if it is not in thermal equilibrium with its environment. This is due to the…
Quantum Vacuum Self-Propulsion and Torque
Kimball A. Milton, Nima Pourtolami, Gerard Kennedy
This article summarizes our recent efforts to understand spontaneous quantum vacuum forces and torques, which require that a stationary object be out of thermal equilibrium with th…
Quantum Self-Propulsion of an Inhomogeneous Object out of Thermal Equilibrium
Kimball A. Milton, Nima Pourtolami, Gerard Kennedy
In an earlier paper, we explored how quantum vacuum torque can arise: a body or nanoparticle that is out of thermal equilibrium with its environment experiences a spontaneous torqu…
Vacuum torque, propulsive forces, and anomalous tangential forces: Effects of nonreciprocal media out of thermal equilibrium
Kimball A. Milton, Xin Guo, Gerard Kennedy +2
From the generalized fluctuation-dissipation theorem, it is known that a body at rest made of nonreciprocal material may experience a torque, even in vacuum, if it is not in therma…
Quantum friction in the presence of a perfectly conducting plate
Xin Guo, Kimball A. Milton, Gerard Kennedy +1
A neutral but polarizable particle at rest near a perfectly conducting plate feels a force normal to the surface of the plate, which tends to pull the particle towards the plate. T…
Casimir Self-Entropy of Nanoparticles with Classical Polarizabilities: Electromagnetic Field Fluctuations
Yang Li, Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar +3
Not only are Casimir interaction entropies not guaranteed to be positive, but also, more strikingly, Casimir self-entropies of bodies can be negative. Here, we attempt to interpret…
Energetics of quantum vacuum friction. II: Dipole fluctuations and field fluctuations
Xin Guo, Kimball A. Milton, Gerard Kennedy +3
As a second paper in series with arXiv:2108.01539, we discuss here quantum vacuum friction on an intrinsically dissipative particle. The friction arises not only from the field flu…
The energetics of quantum vacuum friction: Field fluctuations
Xin Guo, Kimball A. Milton, Gerard Kennedy +3
Quantum fluctuations can induce a friction on a neutral but polarizable particle and cause it to radiate energy even if the particle is moving in free space filled with blackbody r…
Self-force on moving electric and magnetic dipoles: dipole radiation, Vavilov-Čerenkov radiation, friction with a conducting surface, and the Einstein-Hopf effect
Kimball A. Milton, Hannah Day, Yang Li +2
The classical electromagnetic self-force on an arbitrary time-dependent electric or magnetic dipole moving with constant velocity in vacuum, and in a medium, is considered. Of cour…
Electrodynamic friction of a charged particle passing a conducting plate
Kimball A. Milton, Yang Li, Xin Guo +1
The classical electromagnetic friction of a charged particle moving with prescribed constant velocity parallel to a planar imperfectly conducting surface is reinvestigated. As a co…
Self-Stress on a Dielectric Ball and Casimir-Polder Forces
Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar, Iver Brevik +1
It has always been conventionally understood that, in the dilute limit, the Casimir energy of interaction between bodies or the Casimir self-energy of a dielectric body could be id…
Casimir forces in inhomogeneous media: renormalization and the principle of virtual work
Yang Li, Kimball A. Milton, Xin Guo +2
We calculate the Casimir forces in two configurations, namely, three parallel dielectric slabs and a dielectric slab between two perfectly conducting plates, where the dielectric m…