Stable Levitation and Alignment of Compact Objects by Casimir Spring Forces

We investigate a stable Casimir force configuration consisting of an object contained inside a spherical or spheroidal cavity filled with a dielectric medium. The spring constant for displacements from the center of the cavity and the dependence of the energy on the relative orientations of the inne...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rahi, Sahand Jamal, Zaheer, Saad
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55988