Levitation by Casimir Forces in and out of equilibrium

Mehran Kardar

Thosten Emig, Giuseppe Bimonte, Noah Graham, Robert Jaffe

Ramin Golestanian, Mark Hertzberg

Jamal Rahi, Mohammad Maghrebi

Vlad Golyk, Matthias Krüger

Outline

I.        Casimir force: Theory, Experiment, & Application                                            

II.      Thermal Casimir force: Critical fluctuations

III.     Repulsion/Levitation? Boundary effects (fluids, meta-materials, ...); and Shapes (spheres, pistons, ...) 

IV.     Earnshaw's theorem in electrostatics and for fluctuation-induced forces

V.      Levitation with thermal non-equilibrium: Near field phenomena, heat transfer and force

VI.     Dynamic phenomena: Steady states (rotation, motion) and fluctuations

VII.    Summary

Next (Casimir force) Outline Casimir force Thermal Casimir Repulsion? Earnshaw's theorem Thermal non-equilibrium Dynamic Casimir Summary