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. Scattering approach: Formalism and applications
IV. Earnshaw's theorem in electrostatics and for fluctuation-induced forces
V. Thernal disequilibrium: Heat radiation and transfer, levitation and propulsion
VI. Dynamic phenomena: Rotating object