A system for probing Casimir energy corrections to the condensation energy.

ABSTRACT: In this article, we present a nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) designed to detect changes in the Casimir energy. The Casimir effect is a result of the appearance of quantum fluctuations in an electromagnetic vacuum. Previous experiments have used nano- or microscale parallel plate capacitors to detect the Casimir force by measuring the small attractive force these fluctuations exert between the two surfaces. In this new set of experiments, we aim to directly detect the shifts in the Casimir energy in a vacuum due to the presence of the metallic parallel plates, one of which is a superconductor. A change in the Casimir energy of this configuration is predicted to shift the superconducting transition temperature (T _c) because of the interaction between it and the superco

SUBMITTER: Perez-Morelo D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7767790 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature