Presentation by Falko Schmidt on QED Casimir vs Critical Casimir at MPI Stuttgart,


February 11, 2021

QED Casimir vs Critical Casimir Forces: Trapping and Releasing of metal flake particles
Falko Schmidt, Agnese Callegari, Giovanni Volpe
(online at) MPI Stuttgart, Germany
11 February 2021, 14:30-16.00
We propose a mechanism for restoration of collapsed structures using critical Casimir forces by investigating the diffusion of metal flake-like particles. By tuning temperature near-criticality and employing selective self-assembled monolayers the resulting repulsive critical Casimir force is large enough to lift off particle and enable transitions previously impeded by QED Casimir attraction.
A metal flake is hovering above a glass surface on top of which a metal substrate has been sputtered and treated a posteriori with a self-assembled monolayer.

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