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Optimizing optical tweezing with directional scattering in composite microspheres
R. Ali, F. A. Pinheiro, F. S. S. Rosa +2
Trapping of microspheres with a single focused laser beam is usually limited to materials with relative refractive indexes slightly larger than one. We show that directional light…
Double-layer force suppression between charged microspheres
D. S. Ether, F. S. S. Rosa, D. M. Tibaduiza +3
In this paper we propose a protocol to suppress double-layer forces between two microspheres immersed in a dielectric medium, being one microsphere metallic at a controlled potenti…
Probing the Casimir force with optical tweezers
D. S. Ether, L. B. Pires, S. Umrath +10
We propose to use optical tweezers to probe the Casimir interaction between microspheres inside a liquid medium for geometric aspect ratios far beyond the validity of the widely em…
Optical tweezers absolute calibration
R S Dutra, N B Viana, P A Maia Neto +1
Optical tweezers are highly versatile laser traps for neutral microparticles, with fundamental applications in physics and in single molecule cell biology. Force measurements are p…
Modeling electrostatic patch effects in Casimir force measurements
R. O. Behunin, F. Intravaia, D. A. R. Dalvit +2
Electrostatic patch potentials give rise to forces between neutral conductors at distances in the micrometer range and must be accounted for in the analysis of Casimir force experi…
Disorder in quantum vacuum: Casimir-induced localization of matter waves
G. A. Moreno, R. Messina, D. A. R. Dalvit +3
Disordered geometrical boundaries such as rough surfaces induce important modifications to the mode spectrum of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum. In analogy to Anderson localizat…
Driving quantized vortices with quantum vacuum fluctuations
François Impens, Ana M. Contreras-Reyes, Paulo A. Maia Neto +4
We propose to use a rotating corrugated material plate in order to stir, through the Casimir-Polder interaction, quantized vortices in an harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condens…
The Scattering Approach to the Casimir Force
S. Reynaud, A. Canaguier-Durand, R. Messina +2
We present the scattering approach which is nowadays the best tool for describing the Casimir force in realistic experimental configurations. After reminders on the simple geometri…
Vacuum induced torque between corrugated metallic plates
Robson B. Rodrigues, Paulo A. Maia Neto, A. Lambrecht +1
We study the torque arising between two corrugated metallic plates due to the interaction with electromagnetic vacuum. This Casimir torque can be measured with torsion pendulum tec…
Quantum radiation pressure on a moving mirror at finite temperature
L. A. S. Machado, P. A. Maia Neto, C. Farina
We compute the radiation pressure force on a moving mirror, in the nonrelativistic approximation, assuming the field to be at temperature At high temperature, the force has a…
Inertial forces in the Casimir effect with two moving plates
L. A. S. Machado, P. A. Maia Neto
We combine linear response theory and dimensional regularization in order to derive the dynamical Casimir force in the low frequency regime. We consider two parallel plates moving…
Decoherence and gravitational backgrounds
Serge Reynaud, Brahim Lamine, Astrid Lambrecht +2
We study the decoherence process associated with the scattering of stochastic gravitational waves. We discuss the case of macroscopic systems, such as the planetary motion of the M…
Theory of Optical Tweezers
P. A. Maia Neto, H. M. Nussenzveig
We derive a partial-wave (Mie) expansion of the axial force exerted on a transparent sphere by a laser beam focused through a high numerical aperture objective. The results hold th…
Quantum photon emission from a moving mirror in the nonperturbative regime
J. P. F. Mendonca, P. A. Maia Neto, F. I. Takakura
We consider the coupling of the electromagnetic vacuum field with an oscillating perfectly-reflecting mirror in the nonrelativistic approximation. As a consequence of the frequency…
Quantum radiation in a plane cavity with moving mirrors
D. F. Mundarain, P. A. Maia Neto
We consider the electromagnetic vacuum field inside a perfect plane cavity with moving mirrors, in the nonrelativistic approximation. We show that low frequency photons are generat…