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View SchemaEffect of hydrogen-switchable mirrors on the Casimir force
| Authors | Davide Iannuzzi, Mariangela Lisanti, Federico Capasso |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0403142 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0403142 |
| DOI | 10.1073/pnas.0400876101 |
| Journal | Proc. Nat. Ac. Sci. USA 101 (2004) 4019 |
Abstract
We present systematic measurements of the Casimir force between a gold-coated plate and a sphere coated with a Hydrogen Switchable Mirror (HSM). HSMs are shiny metals that can become transparent by hydrogenation. In spite of such a dramatic change of the optical properties of the sphere, we did not observe any significant decrease of the Casimir force after filling the experimental apparatus with hydrogen. This counterintuitive result can be explained by the Lifshitz theory that describes the Casimir attraction between metallic and dielectric materials.
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