Casimir Forces In and Out of Equilibrium
Mehran Kardar
Thosten Emig, Noah Graham, Robert Jaffe
Jamal Rahi, Mohammad Maghrebi, Matthias Krueger
Outline
I. Casimir force: Theory, Experiment, & Application
II. Repulsion utilizing boundary conditions? Intervening fluid, magnetic (meta-)materials
III. Repulsion utilizing Shapes? Spheres, pistons
III. Scattering approach: Formalism, exactly solvable shapes (sphere, cylinder, knife-edge, wedge, cone, ...)
V. Earnshaw's theorem in electrostatics and for fluctuation-induced forces
IV. Out of equilibrium: Radiation pressure, temperature differences