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most citedRoughness correction to the Casimir force at short separations: Contact distance and extreme value statistics

76 citations · 329 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

quant-ph2026

Casimir force in a water nanolayer confined by graphene sheets

Wijnand Broer, Jure Dobnikar

Casimir forces, arising from quantum and thermal fluctuations, depend strongly on the electromagnetic susceptibilities of the interacting materials. Here, we theoretically investig…

quant-ph2026

Levitated Ferromagnetic Torsional Oscillators for High-Precision Magnetometry and Probing Exotic Interactions

Ren Yichong, Wu Lielie, Broer Wijnand +3

Levitated ferromagnetic systems are expected to have significant potential in precision magnetic field sensing by leveraging mechanical isolation to minimize mechanical contact and…

quant-ph2026

Field-Tunable Meissner-Levitated Ferromagnetic Microsphere Sensor for Cryogenic Casimir and Short-Range Gravity Tests

Yi-Chong Ren, Feng Xu, Wijnand Broer +2

Near-field force measurements at submicron separations can probe Casimir effects and hypothetical short-range interactions, but require cryogenic operation and stable, \textit{in s…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Interplay between finite thickness and chirality effects on the Casimir-Lifshitz torque with nematic cholesteric liquid crystals

Wijnand Broer, Rudolf Podgornik

We theoretically investigate the combined effects of the chirality and the finite total thickness of nematic cholesteric liquid crystals on the Casimir-Lifshitz torque. We find tha…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 10 cited

Qualitative chirality effects on the Casimir-Lifshitz torque with liquid crystals

Wijnand Broer, Bing-Sui Lu, Rudolf Podgornik

We model a cholesteric liquid crystal as a planar uniaxial multilayer system, where the orientation of each layer differs slightly from that of the adjacent one. This allows us to…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 8 cited

Maxwell Eigenmode approach to the Casimir-Lifshitz Torque

Wijnand Broer, John Yuh Han Liow, Bing-Sui Lu

More than forty years ago, Barash published a calculation of the full retarded Casimir-Lifshitz torque for planar birefringent media with arbitrary degrees of anisotropy. An indepe…