1. Thermal Casimir force between nanostructured surfaces
- Author
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Serge Reynaud, Astrid Lambrecht, Romain Guérout, Ho Bun Chan, J. Lussange, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB (Jussieu)), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology], Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Subjects
Surface (mathematics) ,Physics ,Casimir pressure ,Quantum Physics ,Plane (geometry) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Function (mathematics) ,Grating ,01 natural sciences ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,010305 fluids & plasmas ,Casimir effect ,Condensed Matter - Other Condensed Matter ,Classical mechanics ,[PHYS.QPHY]Physics [physics]/Quantum Physics [quant-ph] ,[PHYS.COND.CM-GEN]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Other [cond-mat.other] ,0103 physical sciences ,Thermal ,Scattering theory ,010306 general physics ,Quantum Physics (quant-ph) ,Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other) - Abstract
International audience; We present detailed calculations for the Casimir force between a plane and a nanostructured surface at finite temperature in the framework of the scattering theory. We then study numerically the effect of finite temperature as a function of the grating parameters and the separation distance. We also infer non-trivial geometrical effects on the Casimir interaction via a comparison with the proximity force approximation. Finally, we compare our calculations with data from experiments performed with nanostructured surfaces.
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- 2013