Creation of Van der Waals, Casimir, and many more stochastic forces, with light radiation pressure via optics of randomly fluctuating sources
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The mechanical action on matter of the electromagnetic field emitted by a fluctuating source is governed by its statistics. In particular, thermal sources and vacuum fluctuations exert on bodies those well-known Casimir (C) and Van der Waals (VdW) forces. However, we have recently demonstrated that partially coherent random electromagnetic fields emitted by tailored optical sources, induce a photonic force on particles which, in particular, may be equivalent to those of Van der Waals and Casimir.
Journal: arXiv: Optics