Demonstration of the asymmetric lateral Casimir force between corrugated surfaces in the nonadditive regime

H. C. Chiu; G. L. Klimchitskaya; V. N. Marachevsky; V. M. Mostepanenko; U. Mohideen

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.80.121402

Demonstration of the asymmetric lateral Casimir force between corrugated surfaces in the nonadditive regime

H. C. Chiu^*, G. L. Klimchitskaya, V. N. Marachevsky, V. M. Mostepanenko, U. Mohideen

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Abstract

The measurement of the lateral Casimir force between two aligned sinusoidally corrugated Au-coated surfaces has been performed in the nonadditive regime. The use of deeper corrugations also allowed us to demonstrate an asymmetry in the phase dependences of the lateral Casimir force, as predicted earlier. The measurement data are found to be in excellent agreement with the exact theoretical results computed at T=300 K including effect of real material properties. The deviations between the exact theory and the proximity force approximation are quantified. The obtained results are topical for applications in nanomachines.

Original language	English
Article number	121402
Journal	Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume	80
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.121402
Publication status	Published - 2009 Sep 9
Externally published	Yes

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