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Casimir repulsion turned into attraction by the nonlocal response of salted water

arXiv
Authors: Larissa Inácio, Felipe S. S. Rosa, Serge Reynaud, Paulo A. Maia Neto

Year

2024

Paper ID

37682

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Preprint

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The Dzyaloshinskii-Lifshitz-Pitaevskii (DLP) theory of Casimir forces predicts a repulsion between two material surfaces separated by a third medium with an intermediate dielectric function. This DLP repulsion paradigm constitutes an important example with many applications. We show here that it is broken when the surfaces interact across salted water due to the nonlocal response of the ions in solution. We consider the interaction between silica and gold and show that the zero-frequency contribution, which is the only one affected by the nonlocal response, is dominant for distances in the range near 100 {rm nm} and beyond. As a result, the total Casimir force between gold and silica surfaces in salted water is always attractive in spite of the DLP repulsion paradigm.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:2410.18961 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18961 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18961

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