Summary

I.       Casimir force in QED:       

 High precision experimental precision achieved with scanning probes                        

       Applications require control of this force, and its shape dependence

II.      Thermal Casimir force:   

 Critical Casimir force observed for colloids in a binary mixture    

III.    Repulsion/Levitation?

 Metamaterials, las invisibility cloaks:     

 Geometry: 

IV.   Earnshaw's theorem:             

  No levitation is possible with electrostatic interactions:  

 No levitation is possible with Casimir forces with dielectric composites: 

V.   Levitation with thermal non-equilibrium: Breakdown of classical "Stefan-Bolzmann" law

 Near field heat transfer:      Radiation anisotropy: 

  Force, propulsion:      Levitation:         

VI.    Dynamic Casimir phenomena:                                                                                      (BBT)

Anomalous flight of classical particle in a quantum bath:   Rotating sphere     

Acknowledgments

Thosten Emig, Giuseppe Bimonte, Noah Graham, Robert Jaffe

Ramin Golestanian, Mark Hertzberg

Jamal Rahi, Mohammad Maghrebi

Vlad Golyk, Matthias Krüger

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