Casimir effect

1. C. Cattuto, R. Brito, U. Marini Bettolo Marconi, F. Nori, R. Soto
   Fluctuation-induced Casimir forces in granular fluids
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 178001 (2006). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

2. V.A. Yampol'skii, S. Savel'ev, Z.A. Mayselis, S.S. Apostolov, F. Nori
   Anomalous temperature dependence of the Casimir force for thin metal films
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096803 (2008). [PDF][Link][arXiv][Erratum]

3. J.R. Johansson, G. Johansson, C.M. Wilson, F. Nori
   Dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting coplanar waveguide
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147003 (2009). [PDF][Link][arXiv]
   Featured in Physics, Editors' Suggestion

4. E.G. Galkina, B.A. Ivanov, S. Savel'ev, V.A. Yampol'skii, F. Nori
   Drastic change of the Casimir force at the metal-insulator transition
   Phys. Rev. B 80, 125119 (2009). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

5. J.R. Johansson, G. Johansson, C.M. Wilson, F. Nori
   Dynamical Casimir effect in superconducting microwave circuits
   Phys. Rev. A 82, 052509 (2010). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

6. V.A. Yampol'skii, S. Savel'ev, Z.A. Mayselis, S.S. Apostolov, F. Nori
   Temperature dependence of the Casimir force for bulk lossy media
   Phys. Rev. A 82, 032511 (2010). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

7. C.M. Wilson, G. Johansson, A. Pourkabirian, J.R. Johansson, T. Duty, F. Nori, P. Delsing
   Observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit
   Nature 479, 376-379 (2011). [PDF][Link][arXiv]
   The supplementary material is here [PDF][Link]
   Featured in a Nature "News & Views" [PDF][Link]
   Physics World top five Physics breakthroughs of the year 2011 [PDF][Link]
   According to Nature, coverage of our work on Nature News was "The most read news story of 2011". [PDF][Link]

8. P.D. Nation, J.R. Johansson, M.P. Blencowe, F. Nori
   Stimulating uncertainty: Amplifying the quantum vacuum with superconducting circuits
   Rev. Mod. Phys. 84, 1-24 (2012). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

9. J.R. Johansson, G. Johansson, C.M. Wilson, P. Delsing, F. Nori
   Nonclassical microwave radiation from the dynamical Casimir effect
   Phys. Rev. A 87, 043804 (2013). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

10. V. Macri, A. Ridolfo, O. Di Stefano, A.F. Kockum, F. Nori, S. Savasta
    Nonperturbative Dynamical Casimir Effect in Optomechanical Systems: Vacuum Casimir-Rabi Splittings
    Phys. Rev. X 8, 011031 (2018). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

11. O. Di Stefano, A. Settineri, V. Macri, A. Ridolfo, R. Stassi, A.F. Kockum, S. Savasta, F. Nori
    Interaction of Mechanical Oscillators Mediated by the Exchange of Virtual Photon Pairs
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 030402 (2019). [PDF][Link][arXiv][Suppl. Info.]

12. A. Settineri, V. Macri, L. Garziano, O. Di Stefano, F. Nori, S. Savasta
    Conversion of mechanical noise into correlated photon pairs: Dynamical Casimir effect from an incoherent mechanical drive
    Phys. Rev. A 100, 022501 (2019). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

13. W. Qin, V. Macri, A. Miranowicz, S. Savasta, F. Nori
    Emission of photon pairs by mechanical stimulation of the squeezed vacuum
    Phys. Rev. A 100, 062501 (2019). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

14. E. Russo, A. Mercurio, F. Mauceri, R.L. Franco, F. Nori, S. Savasta, V. Macri
    Optomechanical two-photon hopping
    Phys. Rev. Research 5, 013221 (2023). [PDF][Link][arXiv]

MP4 presentations on “Dynamical Casimir effect in superconducting circuits”:

• Longer and more pedagogical version (~33 minutes) [MP4]
• Faster-paced version (~23 minutes) [MP4]
• Short and very rushed version (~12 minutes) [MP4]

Related Presentations

2020: The first two talks in this VIDEO LINK are by F. Nori and S. Savasta, on the Dynamical Casimir Effect. These two talks were given on December 10th, 2020, at the Princeton Workshop on: Unruh Acceleration Radiation, Vacuum Entanglement and Relativity.
The first talk is about 30 minutes. The second talk is about 25 minutes.