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Volume 111, Number 4, August 2015
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Article Number | 44001 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/111/44001 | |
Published online | 25 August 2015 |
Casimir torque between nanostructured plates
1 Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, ENS-PSL Research University, Collège de France Case 74, F-75252 Paris, France
2 ISIS & icFRC, University of Strasbourg and CNRS - 8, allée Gaspard Monge, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
Received: 8 July 2015
Accepted: 31 July 2015
We investigate in detail the Casimir torque induced by quantum vacuum fluctuations between two nanostructured plates. Our calculations are based on the scattering approach and take into account the coupling between different modes induced by the shape of the surface which are neglected in any sort of proximity approximation or effective medium approach. We then present an experimental setup aiming at measuring this torque.
PACS: 42.50.-p – Quantum optics / 03.70.+k – Theory of quantized fields / 68.35.Ct – Interface structure and roughness
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