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Phononic Casimir Effect in Planar Materials
Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez, Dai-Nam Le, Lilia M. Woods
The Phononic Casimir effect between planar objects is investigated by deriving a formalism from the quantum partition function of the system following multiscattering approach. Thi…
Quantum stick-slip motion in nanoscaled friction
Dai-Nam Le, Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez, Lilia M. Woods
Friction in atomistic systems is usually described by the classical Prandtl-Tomlinson model suitable for capturing the dragging force of a nanoparticle in a periodic potential. Her…
Giant anisotropy and Casimir phenomena: the case of carbon nanotube metasurfaces
Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez, Dai-Nam Le, Igor V. Bondarev +2
The Casimir interaction and torque are related phenomena originating from the exchange of electromagnetic excitations between objects. While the Casimir force exists between any ty…
Confinement-Induced Nonlocality and Casimir Force in Transdimensional Systems
Igor V. Bondarev, Michael D. Pugh, Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez +2
We study within the framework of the Lifshitz theory the long-range Casimir force for in-plane isotropic and anisotropic free-standing transdimensional material slabs. In the forme…
Casimir forces and quantum friction of finite-size atoms in relativistic trajectories
Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez, Eduardo Martin-Martinez
We study quantum friction and Casimir forces with a full-relativistic formalism for atoms modelled as Unruh-DeWitt detectors in the presence of arbitrary macroscopic objects. We co…
Relativistic Quantum Optics: On the relativistic invariance of the light-matter interaction models
Eduardo Martin-Martinez, Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez
In this note we discuss the invariance under general changes of reference frame of all the physical predictions of particle detector models in quantum field theory in general and,…
Casimir Effect in systems in and out of Equilibrium
Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez
This thesis consists on two separate parts. In the first part, we discuss about the nature of the Casimir effect as the response of a fluctuant medium to the breakdown of the trans…
Stochastic Quantization and Casimir Forces: Pistons of Arbitrary Cross Section
Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez, Ricardo Brito, Rodrigo Soto
Recently, a method based on stochastic quantization has been proposed to compute the Casimir force and its fluctuations in arbitrary geometries. It relies on the spectral decomposi…
Casimir Energy and Entropy between perfect metal Spheres
Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez
We calculate the Casimir energy and entropy for two perfect metal spheres in the large and short separation limit. We obtain nonmonotonic behavior of the Helmholtz free energy with…
Casimir interaction between inclined metallic cylinders
P. Rodriguez-Lopez, T. Emig
The Casimir interaction between one-dimensional metallic objects (cylinders, wires) displays unconventional features. Here we study the orientation dependence of this interaction b…