Levitation by Casimir Forces in and out of equilibrium
Mehran Kardar
Thosten Emig, Giuseppe Bimonte, Noah Graham, Robert Jaffe
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. Membranes: Conformal field theory for Forces between inclusions, stability
VI. Thermal disequilibrium: Heat radiation and transfer, levitation and propulsion
VII. Summary