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

Next (Introduction) Outline Casimir force Thermal Casimir Repulsion? Earnshaw's theorem Membrane inclusions Out of equilibrium Summary