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Introduction to Casimir Energy (part 2) - STER Spotlight talk

25-05-2023 11:00 - 11:45

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Audytorium Instytut Fizyki PAN

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Introduction to Casimir Energy

Bart van Tiggelen

CNRS Research Professor – Grenoble

Laboratoire de Physique et de Modélisation des Milieux Condensés, CNRS / Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

Outline:

Brief history of Casimir energy
The Casimir Force (1D, 2D)
- Finite temperature
- Proximity force approximation
- Casimir’s theory for the stability of electron
- Schwinger’s theory for sonoluminescence
Quantum optics of vacuum fluctuations
- Quantization of electromagnetic field
- Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for quantum fluctuations in vacuum and in matter.
- Van der Waals – Polder force as Casimir energy
- Lifshitz formula
Lorentz invariance of Casimir energy
- Lorentz invariance of Casimir catastrophe
- Accelerated observer & Unruh-Hawking effect
- Casimir energy in Cosmology
New developments in Casimir energy
- Casimir inertial mass
- Casimir shear friction
- Casimir mediated phonon transfer
- Casimir (angular) momentum

The spotlight talk is financed through the STER program of the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA)