• 文献标题:   Demonstration of an Unusual Thermal Effect in the Casimir Force from Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIU M, ZHANG Y, KLIMCHITSKAYA GL, MOSTEPANENKO VM, MOHIDEEN U
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
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  • 被引频次:   12
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.206802
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

We report precision measurements of the gradient of the Casimir force between an Au-coated sphere and graphene sheet deposited on a silica plate. The measurement data are compared with exact theory using the polarization tensor found in the framework of the Dirac model including effects of the nonzero chemical potential and energy gap of the graphene sample with no fitting parameters. The very good agreement between experiment and theory demonstrates the unusually big thermal effect at separations below 1 mu m which has never been observed for conventional 3D materials. Thus, it is confirmed experimentally that for graphene the effective temperature is determined by the Fermi velocity rather than by the speed of light.