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Nonequilibrium Casimir effects of nonreciprocal surface waves
Chinmay Khandekar, Siddharth Buddhiraju, Paul R. Wilkinson +4
We show that an isotropic dipolar particle in the vicinity of a substrate made of nonreciprocal plasmonic materials can experience a lateral Casimir force and torque when the parti…
Fundamental limits to attractive and repulsive Casimir--Polder forces
Prashanth S. Venkataram, Sean Molesky, Pengning Chao +1
We derive upper and lower bounds on the Casimir--Polder force between an anisotropic dipolar body and a macroscopic body separated by vacuum via algebraic properties of Maxwell's e…
Quantum Rabi Model with Two-Photon Relaxation
Moein Malekakhlagh, Alejandro W. Rodriguez
We study a cavity-QED setup consisting of a two-level system coupled to a single cavity mode with two-photon relaxation. The system dynamics is modeled via a Lindblad master equati…
Measurement of non-monotonic Casimir forces between silicon nanostructures
L. Tang, M. Wang, C. Y. Ng +4
Casimir forces are of fundamental interest because they originate from quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. Apart from controlling the Casimir force via the optical p…
Casimir repulsion beyond the dipole regime
Alexander P. McCauley, Alejandro W. Rodriguez, M. T. Homer Reid +1
We extend a previous result [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 090403 (2010)] on Casimir repulsion between a plate with a hole and a cylinder centered above it to geometries in which the centr…
Casimir micro-sphere diclusters and three-body effects in fluids
Jaime Varela, Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Alexander P. McCauley +1
Our previous article [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 060401 (2010)] predicted that Casimir forces induced by the material-dispersion properties of certain dielectrics can give rise to stabl…
Calculation of nonzero-temperature Casimir forces in the time domain
Kai Pan, Alexander P. McCauley, Alejandro W. Rodriguez +3
We show how to compute Casimir forces at nonzero temperatures with time-domain electromagnetic simulations, for example using a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Compare…
Achieving a Strongly Temperature-Dependent Casimir Effect
Alejandro W. Rodriguez, David Woolf, Alexander P. McCauley +3
We propose a method of achieving large temperature sensitivity in the Casimir force that involves measuring the stable separation between dielectric objects immersed in fluid. We s…
Non-touching nanoparticle diclusters bound by repulsive and attractive Casimir forces
Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Alexander P. McCauley, David Woolf +3
We present a scheme for obtaining stable Casimir suspension of dielectric nontouching objects immersed in a fluid, validated here in various geometries consisting of ethanol-separa…
Casimir forces in the time domain II: Applications
Alexander P. McCauley, Alejandro W. Rodriguez, John D. Joannopoulos +1
Our preceding paper introduced a method to compute Casimir forces in arbitrary geometries and for arbitrary materials that was based on a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) schem…
Casimir forces in the time domain: I. Theory
Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Alexander P. McCauley, John D. Joannopoulos +1
We introduce a method to compute Casimir forces in arbitrary geometries and for arbitrary materials based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) scheme. The method involves th…
Efficient Computation of Casimir Interactions between Arbitrary 3D Objects
M. T. Homer Reid, Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Jacob White +1
We introduce an efficient technique for computing Casimir energies and forces between objects of arbitrarily complex 3D geometries. In contrast to other recently developed methods,…
Ingredients of a Casimir analog computer
Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Alexander P. McCauley, John D. Joannopoulos +1
We present the basic ingredients of a technique to compute quantum Casimir forces at micrometer scales using antenna measurements at tabletop, e.g. centimeter, scales, forming a ty…
Stable suspension and dispersion-induced transitions from repulsive Casimir forces between fluid-separated eccentric cylinders
Alejandro W. Rodriguez, J. N. Munday, J. D. Joannopoulos +3
Using an exact numerical method for finite nonplanar objects, we demonstrate a stable mechanical suspension of a silica cylinder within a metallic cylinder separated by ethanol, vi…
Optical-approximation analysis of sidewall-spacing effects on the force between two squares with parallel sidewalls
Saad Zaheer, Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Steven G. Johnson +1
Using the ray-optics approximation, we analyze the Casimir force in a two dimensional domain formed by two metallic blocks adjacent to parallel metallic sidewalls, which are separa…
Tailoring optical nonlinearities via the Purcell effect
Peter Bermel, Alejandro Rodriguez, John D. Joannopoulos +1
We predict that the effective nonlinear optical susceptibility can be tailored using the Purcell effect. While this is a general physical principle that applies to a wide variety o…
Virtual photons in imaginary time: Computing exact Casimir forces via standard numerical-electromagnetism techniques
Alejandro Rodriguez, Mihai Ibanescu, Davide Iannuzzi +2
We describe a numerical method to compute Casimir forces in arbitrary geometries, for arbitrary dielectric and metallic materials, with arbitrary accuracy (given sufficient computa…