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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 118, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.133605
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of New Mexico
- College of Arts and Sciences of the University of New Mexico
- University of New Mexico (UNM) Center for Advanced Research Computing
- Spanish MINECO [MAT2014-59096-P, SEV2015-0522]
- Fundacio privada CELLEX
- Agencia de Gestio d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) [2014-SGR-1400]
- European Research Council [ERC-2016-STG-714151-PSINFONI]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (United Kingdom)
- European Research Council project iPLASMM [321268]
- Royal Society
- Wolfson Foundation
- EPSRC [EP/M013812/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/M013812/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- European Research Council (ERC) [321268] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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We study the lateral Casimir force experienced by a particle that rotates near a planar surface. The origin of this force lies in the symmetry breaking induced by the particle rotation in the vacuum and thermal fluctuations of its dipole moment, and therefore, in contrast to lateral Casimir forces previously described in the literature for corrugated surfaces, it exists despite the translational invariance of the planar surface. Working within the framework of fluctuational electrodynamics, we derive analytical expressions for the lateral force and analyze its dependence on the geometrical and material properties of the system. In particular, we show that the direction of the force can be controlled by adjusting the particle-surface distance, which may be exploited as a new mechanism to manipulate nanoscale objects.
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