Forces between a partially coherent fluctuating source and a magnetodielectric particle

TL;DR

This paper investigates how electromagnetic forces on magnetodielectric particles are affected by a partially coherent fluctuating source, revealing ways to control nanoparticle interactions through coherence and surface wave effects.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of the influence of source coherence and surface waves on forces between fluctuating sources and magnetodielectric particles, extending understanding of Casimir and Van der Waals forces.

Findings

Force modulation via source coherence length

Control of particle interactions through dipole interference

Impact of surface waves on electromagnetic forces

Abstract

We address the forces exerted by the electromagnetic field emitted by a planar uctuating source on dielectric particles that have arose much interest because of their recently shown magnetodielectric behavior. In this context, we analyze as a particular case the modification of the Casimir and Van der Waals forces. We study the effect of the source coherence length as well as the interplay between the force from the radiated field and that from the electric and magnetic dipoles induced on the particle. This allows a control of these interactions as well as of the weight and interference effects between the fields from both kinds of induced dipoles, in particular when large changes in their differential scattering cross section occur due to Kerker minimum forward or zero backward conditions; thus opening new paths to nanoparticle ensembling and manipulation. The influence of surface waves of the source is also studied.