Casimir Effect with Dielectric Matter in Salted Water and Implications at the Cell Scale
The Casimir interaction in salted water contains a universal contribution of electromagnetic fluctuations that makes it of a longer range than previously thought. The universal contribution dominates non-universal ones at the distances relevant for actin fibers inside the cell. We discuss universal and non-universal contributions with a model mimicking biological matter. We also show that the universal Casimir effect should have crucial implications at the cell scale.
Authors
- S. Reynaud
- Paulo A. Maia Neto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5287-172X)
- Astrid Lambrecht (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5193-1222)
- Larissa Inácio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8971-0591)
- Felipe S. S. Rosa
Institutions
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE)
- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (FR)
- École Normale Supérieure - PSL (FR)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
- Institute of Electronic Materials Technology (PL)
- RWTH Aachen University (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physics
- Published
- 2026-04-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/physics8020040
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
- Narodowym Centrum Nauki
- Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Fluidos Complexos