Levitation by Casimir Forces in and out of equilibrium
Mehran Kardar
Thosten Emig, Noah Graham, Robert Jaffe
Jamal Rahi, Matthias Krüger
Mohammad Maghrebi, Vlad Golyk
Outline
I. Casimir force: Theory, Experiment, & Application
II. Repulsion/Levitation? Boundary effects (fluids, metamaterials, ...); and Shapes (spheres, pistons, ...)
III. Earnshaw's theorem in electrostatics and for fluctuation-induced forces
IV. Thermal disequilibrium: Heat radiation and transfer, levitation and propulsion