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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 105, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.070404
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- NSF [DMR-08-03315]
- DARPA [S-000354]
We examine whether fluctuation-induced forces can lead to stable levitation. First, we analyze a collection of classical objects at finite temperature that contain fixed and mobile charges and show that any arrangement in space is unstable to small perturbations in position. This extends Earnshaw's theorem for electrostatics by including thermal fluctuations of internal charges. Quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field are responsible for Casimir or van der Waals interactions. Neglecting permeabilities, we find that any equilibrium position of items subject to such forces is also unstable if the permittivities of all objects are higher or lower than that of the enveloping medium, the former being the generic case for ordinary materials in vacuum.
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