Observation of the thermal Casimir force

By A. Sushkov, Woo-Joong Kim, D. Dalvit, S. Lamoreaux. 2010

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A thermal Casimir force—an attraction between two metal surfaces caused by thermal, rather than quantum, fluctuations in the electromagnetic field—has now been identified experimentally between a flat and a spherical gold plate.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Civil and Structural Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Materials perspective on Casimir and van der Waals interactions (2015, methodology): “…et al., 2008; Intravaia et al., 2013), to repulsive interactions in interleaved structures (Rodriguez et al., 2008a; Tang et al., 2015), to strong temperature corrections arising at large separations (Sushkov et al., 2011) or in situations involving structured magnetic 42 media (Bimonte, 2015).”
Ion-trap measurements of electric-field noise near surfaces (2014, background): “The presence of static patch potentials also limits the measurement of Casimir forces at distances of around 0.1 − 1µm (Speake and Trenkel, 2003; Sushkov et al., 2011; Garcia-Sanchez et al., 2012).”
Search for New Physics with Atoms and Molecules (2017, methodology): “Precise comparisons between Casimir effect measurements and calculations provide some of the best constraints on fifth forces for 10−7 m <∼ λ <∼ 10−5 m (Bezerra et al., 2011; Masuda and Sasaki, 2009; Sushkov et al., 2011a).”