Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Organizing Committee xvii
Schedule of Talks xix
Calculations of Casimir Forces
Casimir Forces Between Spheres and Loop Integrals J. Babington 1
Analytic Corrections to the Electromagnetic Casimir Interaction Between a Sphere and a Plate at Short Distances M. Bordag V. Nikolaev 6
Casimir Physics: Geometry, Shape and Material T. Emig 12
Semitransparent Pistons P. Morales K. Kirsten 33
Using Boundary Methods to Compute the Casimir Energy F. C. Lombardo F. D. Mazzitelli P. I. Villar 38
Electromagnetic Non-contact Gears: Prelude P. Parashar K. A. Milton I. Cavero-Peláz K. V. Shajesh 48
The Scattering Approach to the Casimir Force S. Reynaud A. Canaguier-Durand R. Messina A. Lambrecht P. A. Maia Neto 55
Scalar Casimir Energies for Separable Coordinate Systems: Application to Semi-transparent Planes in an Annulus J. Wagner K. A. Milton K. Kirsten 68
Measurement of Casimir Forces
Demonstrating the Strong Geometry Dependence of the Casimir Force on a Surface with Deep, Nanoscale Corrugations H. B. Chan Y. Bao J. Zou R. A. Cirelli F. Klemens W. M. Mansfield C. S. Pai 76
New Results for the Casimir Interaction: Sample Characterization and Low Temperature Measurements R. S. Decca D. López E. Osquiguil 88
Casimir Force Experiments in Air: Two Birds with One Stone S. De Man K. Heeck K. Smith R. J. Wijngaarden D. Iannuzzi 98
Experimental Features of the Recent Lateral Casimir Force Measurement H.-C. Chiu U. Mohideen 109
Lateral Casimir-Polder Force Measurement Using Bose Einstein Condensates G. A. Moreno 122
Repulsive Casimir and van der Waals Forces: From Measurements to Future Technologies J. N. Munday F. Capasso 127
Macroscopic Quantum Vacuum and Microscopic Gravitation R. Onofrio 137
The PVLAS Experiment and Its Results: Probing the Quantum Vacuum with Polarized Light and Magnetic Fields F. Della Valle E. Milotti G. Di Domenico G. Zavattini U. Gastaldi R. Pengo G. Ruoso 147
Thermal Casimir Effects
Thermal Casimir Effect for Conducting Plates and the Bohr-van Leeuwen Theorem G. Bimonte 153
Electromagnetic Casimir Effect in Wedge Geometry and the Energy-Momentum Tensor in Media I. Brevik S. Å. Ellingsen K. A. Milton 158
Casimir-Polder Potential in Thermal Non-equilibrium S. Å. Ellingsen Y. Sherkunov S. Y. Buhmann S. Scheel 178
Geometry-Temperature Interplay in the Casimir Effect H. Gies A. Weber 178
Thermal Effects in the Magnetic Casimir-Polder Interaction H. Haakh F. Intravaia C. Henkel 194
Mode Contributions to the Casimir Effect F. Intravaia C. Henkel 199
Thermal Casimir Force Between Magnetic Materials G. L. Klimchitskaya B. Geyer V. M. Mostepanenko 204
The Casimir Effect and the Force Between Magnetic Materials G. L. Klimchitskaya B. Geyer V. M. Mostepanenko G. L. Klimchitskaya 214
Casimir-Lifshitz Forces and Entropy L. P. Pitaevskii 227
The Thermal Casimir Effect: Saturation B. E. Sernelius 234
Finite Temperature Casimir Effect in the Presence of Extra Dimensions L. P. Teo K. Kirsten 244
Casimir Forces for Real Materials
The Role of Magnetoplasmons in Casimir Force Calculations R. Esquivel-Sirvent R. García-Serrano M. A. Palomino-Ovando G. H. Cocoletzi 249
Suspended Graphene Films and Their Casimir Interaction with Ideal Conductor I. V. Fialkovsky 255
Casimir Energy of Finite Width Mirrors: Renormalization, Self-interaction Limit and Lifshitz Formula I. V. Fialkovsky V. N. Markov Yu. M. Pis'mak 260
Role of Surface States in the Casimir Force Between Semiconducting Films M. Govoni C. Calandra A. Benassi 265
On the Casimir Entropy Between "Perfect Crystals" C. Henkel F. Intravaia 270
Theory of the Casimir Effect for Gratings V. N. Marachevsky 280
The Role of the Surface Modes in the Casimir Repulsion Through Liquids I. G. Pirozhenko A. Lambrecht 289
Casimir Stress in and Force on a Metal Slab in a Planar Cavity M. S. Tomas Z. Lenac 294
Bose-Einstein Condensation in Quasi-2D Systems: Applications to High-Tc Superconductivity C. Villarreal M. de Llano 299
Casimir-Polder Forces
Noble Gas, Alkali and Alkaline Atoms Interacting with a Gold Surface G. Lach M. DeKieviet U. D. Jentschura 304
Nonperturbative Access to Casimir-Polder Forces B. Döbrich H. Gies M. DeKieviet 312
Graphene van der Waals Interactions with an Adatom and within a Double Layer N. J. M. Horing V. Fessatidis 317
Casimir-Polder Forces Between Two Accelerating Atoms and the Unruh Effect J. Marino R. Passante 328
Dynamical Casimir Effect
Dynamical Casimir Effect with Robin Boundary Conditions in a Three Dimensional Open Cavity C. Farina D. Azevedo F. Pascoal 334
Theoretical Studies on Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Artificial Atom T. Fujii S. Matsuo K. Takashima N. Hatakenaka S. Kurihara A. Zeilinger 344
Critical Casimir Forces
Controlling and Harnessing Critical Casimir Forces A. Gambassi 349
Critical Casimir Forces Involving a Chemically Structured Substrate F. Parisen Toldin S. Dietrich 355
Gravitational Effects
Twistor-Beams and Holographic Structure of a Pre-quantum Kerr-Schild Geometry A. Burinskii 360
Repulsive Casimir Forces and Alternatives to Einsteinian Gravity E. Elizalde 365
Quantum Back Reaction to Asymptotically AdS Black Holes A. Flachi K. Kashiyama N. Tanahashi T. Tanaka 377
Topological Casimir Effect in Power-Law FRW Cosmologies A. L. Mkhitaryan A. A. Saharian 383
The Trace Anomaly and Dynamical Vacuum Energy in Cosmology E. Mottola 388
Quasi-black Holes and Lorentz-Abraham Electron in General Relativity O. B. Zaslavskii 408
Heat Kernels and Spectral Determinants
Worldline Approach to QFT on Manifolds with Boundary F. Bastianelli O. Corradini P. A. G. Pisani C. Schubert 415
Vacuum Energy, Spectral Determinant and Heat Kernel Asymptotics of Graph Laplacians with General Vertex Matching Conditions J. M. Harrison K. Kirsten 421
Efficient Evaluation of Effective Action in Radial Backgrounds H. Min 426
Local Measures of Convex Surfaces Induced by the Wiener Measure of Paths M. Schaden 431
Energy Densities
Negative Energy Densities in Quantum Field Theory L. H. Ford 437
Vacuum Energy Density and Pressure Near Boundaries S. A. Fulling 447
Solitons and Nanotubes
Local Analysis of the sine-Gordon Kink Quantum Fluctuations I. Cavero-Peláez J. Mateos Guilarte 457
Quantum Fluctuations of Topological S3-Kinks A. Alonso Izquierdo M. A. Gonzalez Leon J. Mateos Guilarte M. J. Senosiain 465
Topological Casimir Effect in Nanotubes and Nanoloops A. A. Saharian 470
Schwinger Effect and Quantum Electrodynamics
The Search for the Schwinger Effect: Nonperturbative Vacuum Pair Production G. V. Dunne 475
On the Gravitationally Induced Schwinger Mechanism G. Fucci I. G. Avramidi 485
Quantum Statistics Effects for Schwinger Pair Production in Short Laser Pulses F. Hebenstreit R. Alkofer G. V. Dunne H. Gies 492
Scalar-Fermion Bound State with Finite Size Corrections D. A. Owen R. C. Barrett 497
Three-Loop Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian and Asymptotic Analysis in 1 + 1 QED I. Huet D. G. C. McKeon C. Schubert 505
Field Theory in Backgrounds
Characteristics of Gluon Plasma in Chromomagnetic Field at High Temperature M. Bordag V. Demchik V. Skalozub 513
Exact Formfactors in the One-Loop Curved-Space QED and the Nonlocal Multiplicative Anomaly B. Gonçalves G. de Berredo-Peixoto I. L. Shapiro 518
Spin Light in Neutrino Transition Between Different Mass States A. Grigoriev A. Lokhov A. Studenikin A. Ternov 528
Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Stability of the Magnetized Vacuum S.-Y. Wang 533
List of Participants 538
