Casimir force on a micrometer sphere in a dip: proposal of an experiment

2004/12/21 by Iver Brevik, I. Brevik, E. K. Dahl +2
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies #hep-th #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0305-4470/38/5/l01

published as J.Phys.A38:L49-L56,2005 · 11 pages, 1 figure; to appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen

arxiv created 2004/12/21 · openalex publication_date 2005/01/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The attractive Casimir force acting on a micrometer-sphere suspended in a spherical dip, close to the wall, is discussed. This setup is in principle directly accessible to experiment. The sphere and the substrate are assumed to be made of the same perfectly conducting material.

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