Levitation by Casimir Forces in and out of equilibrium
Summary
High precision experimental precision achieved with scanning probes
Applications require control of this force, and its shape dependence
Critical Casimir force observed for colloids in a binary mixture
IV. Earnshaw's theorem:
No levitation is possible with electrostatic interactions:
No levitation is possible with Casimir forces with dielectric composites:
V. Thermal nonequilibrium: Breakdown of classical "Stefan-Bolzmann" law
VII. Dynamic phenomena:
A rotating dielectric will slow down in vacuum:
Acknowledgments
Thosten Emig, Giuseppe Bimonte, Noah Graham, Robert Jaffe
Ramin Golestanian, Mark Hertzberg
Jamal Rahi, Mohammad Maghrebi
Vlad Golyk, Matthias Krüger