The Casimir effect across a superconducting transition

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Abstract

We show that Casimir effect can be used as a means to probe electronic correlations. In particular, we consider an interacting electron system which undergoes a superconducting transition and calculate the Casimir force it exerts on a normal metal. We found an interesting non-analytic behavior of the Casimir force as a function of temperature across the superconducting transition.

*This research is supported by DOE-BES (DESC0001911) and the Simons Foundation.

Authors

  • Zachary Raines

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park
  • Andrew Allocca

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park
  • Victor Galitski

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park
    • University of Maryland College Park