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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…
A nearly Dirichlet Higgs for lower-scale warped extra dimensions
Mariana Frank, Nima Pourtolami, Manuel Toharia
We consider a minimal extension of the Standard Model in warped extra dimensions, with fields propagating in the bulk including a bulk SM-like Higgs doublet. We show that the Higgs…
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…
Additional Higgs bosons: Supersymmetry or warped extra dimensions?
Mariana Frank, Nima Pourtolami, Manuel Toharia
We investigate and compare additional CP-even, CP-odd and charged scalar states appearing in two popular Beyond the Standard Model scenarios. We focus on the simplest possible Higg…
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…
Bulk Higgs and the 750 GeV diphoton signal
Mariana Frank, Nima Pourtolami, Manuel Toharia
We consider scenarios of warped extra-dimensions with all matter fields in the bulk and in which both the hierarchy and the flavor puzzles of the Standard Model are addressed. The…
Flavor-changing decays of the top quark in 5D warped models
Alfonso Diaz-Furlong, Mariana Frank, Nima Pourtolami +2
We study flavor changing neutral current decays of the top quark in the context of general warped extra dimensions, where the five dimensional metric is slightly modified from 5D a…
Higgs boson production and decay in 5D warped models
Mariana Frank, Nima Pourtolami, Manuel Toharia
We calculate the production and decay rates of the Higgs boson at the LHC in the context of general 5 dimensional (5D) warped scenarios with a spacetime background modified from th…
Fermion Masses and Mixing in General Warped Extra Dimensional Models
Mariana Frank, Cherif Hamzaoui, Nima Pourtolami +1
We analyze fermion masses and mixing in a general warped extra dimensional model, where all the Standard Model (SM) fields, including the Higgs, are allowed to propagate in the bul…
Casimir-Polder repulsion: Three-body effects
Kimball A. Milton, E. K. Abalo, Prachi Parashar +5
In this paper we study an archetypical scenario in which repulsive Casimir-Polder forces between an atom or molecule and two macroscopic bodies can be achieved. This is an extensio…
Unified Flavor Symmetry from warped dimensions
Mariana Frank, Cherif Hamzaoui, Nima Pourtolami +1
We propose a scenario which accommodates all the masses and mixings of the SM fermions in a model of warped extra-dimensions with all matter fields in the bulk. In this scenario, t…
Higgs Production in General 5D Warped Models
Mariana Frank, Nima Pourtolami, Manuel Toharia
We calculate the production rate of the Higgs boson at the LHC in the context of general 5 dimensional (5D) warped scenarios with spacetime background modified from the usual $AdS_…
Higgs Bosons in Warped Space, from the Bulk to the Brane
Mariana Frank, Nima Pourtolami, Manuel Toharia
In the context of warped extra-dimensional models with all fields propagating in the bulk, we address the phenomenology of a bulk scalar Higgs boson, and calculate its production c…
PT-Symmetric Quantum Electrodynamics and Unitarity
Kimball A. Milton, E. K. Abalo, Prachi Parashar +2
More than 15 years ago, a new approach to quantum mechanics was suggested, in which Hermiticity of the Hamiltonian was to be replaced by invariance under a discrete symmetry, the p…
Repulsive Casimir and Casimir-Polder Forces
Kimball A. Milton, E. K. Abalo, Prachi Parashar +3
Casimir and Casimir-Polder repulsion have been known for more than 50 years. The general "Lifshitz" configuration of parallel semi-infinite dielectric slabs permits repulsion if th…
Repulsive Casimir Effects
K. A. Milton, E. K. Abalo, Prachi Parashar +3
Like Casimir's original force between conducting plates in vacuum, Casimir forces are usually attractive. But repulsive Casimir forces can be achieved in special circumstances. The…
Casimir-Polder repulsion: Polarizable atoms, cylinders, spheres, and ellipsoids
Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar, Nima Pourtolami +1
Recently, the topic of Casimir repulsion has received a great deal of attention, largely because of the possibility of technological application. The general subject has a long his…
Casimir-Polder repulsion near edges: wedge apex and a screen with an aperture
Kimball A. Milton, E. K. Abalo, Prachi Parashar +3
Although repulsive effects have been predicted for quantum vacuum forces between bodies with nontrivial electromagnetic properties, such as between a perfect electric conductor and…