Levitation by Casimir Forces in and out of equilibrium
Summary
High precision experimental precision achieved with scanning probes
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Applications require control of this force, and its shape dependence
Critical Casimir force observed for colloids in a binary mixture
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IV. Earnshaw's theorem:
No levitation is possible with electrostatic interactions:
No levitation is possible with Casimir forces with dielectric composites:
V. Membranes inclusionse: Forces between inclusions due to membrane concentration fluctuations
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Conformal invariance enables computing forces for arbitrary shapes in any critical system.
Repulsion and stability with wedges:
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VI. Nonequilibrium Radiative force: Breakdown of classical "Stefan-Bolzmann" law
Classical radiation pressure:
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Acknowledgments
Thosten Emig, Giuseppe Bimonte, Noah Graham, Robert Jaffe
Ramin Golestanian, Mark Hertzberg
Jamal Rahi, Mohammad Maghrebi
Vlad Golyk, Matthias Krüger