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 in QED: 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. Membranes inclusionse: Forces between inclusions due to membrane concentration fluctuations
VI. Nonequilibrium Radiative force: Breakdown of classical "Stefan-Bolzmann" law, heat transfer and force
VII. Summary