2024

  • Universal Casimir attraction between filaments at the cell scale, Benjamin Spreng,  Hélène Berthoumieux, Astrid Lambrecht, Anne-Florence Bitbol, Paulo Maia Neto and Serge Reynaud, New J. Phys. 26  013009 (2024)  News in the webpage of CNRS/France (in French): actualités

Special issue  “Quantum Nonstationary Systems”

2022

 Special issue  “The State of the Quantum Vacuum: Casimir Physics in the 2020’s

2021

  • Quantum vacuum Sagnac effect, Guilherme C. Matos, Reinaldo de Melo e Souza, Paulo A. Maia Neto, and François Impens, Phys. Rev. Letters  127, 270401 (2021).
  • Gain-assisted optical tweezing of plasmonic and large refractive index microspheres, Rfaqat Ali. Rafael S. Dutra, Felipe A. Pinheiro, and Paulo A. Maia Neto.  J Optics 23, 115004 (2021).
  • Probing the screening of the Casimir interaction with optical tweezers, L.B. Pires, D.S. Ether, B. Spreng, G.R.S. Araújo, R.S. Decca, R.S. Dutra, M. Borges, F.S.S. Rosa, G.-L. Ingold, M.J.B. Moura, S. Frases, B. Pontes, H.M. Nussenzveig, S. Reynaud, N.B. Viana, and P. A. Maia Neto, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 033037 (2021)
  • Nonparaxial Mie Theory of Image Formation in Optical Microscopes and Characterization of Colloidal Particles, F. Gómez , R.S. Dutra , L.B. Pires, G. R. de S. Araújo , B. Pontes, P.A. Maia Neto, H.M. Nussenzveig, and N.B. Viana, Physical Review Applied 15, 064012 (2021)
  • Enantioselection and chiral sorting of single microspheres using optical pulling forces, Rfaqat Ali. Rafael S. Dutra, Felipe A. Pinheiro, and Paulo A. Maia Neto, Optics Letters 46, 1640 (2021)

 Special issue  “The Casimir Effect: From a Laboratory Table to the Universe

    • The Casimir Interaction between Spheres Immersed in Electrolytes, Renan O. Nunes, Benjamin Spreng,  Reinaldo de Melo e Souza, Gert-Ludwig Ingold, Paulo A. Maia Neto and Felipe S. S. Rosa, Universe  7, 156  (2021)
    • Casimir Interaction between a Plane and a Sphere: Correction to the Proximity-Force Approximation at Intermediate Temperatures, Vinicius Henning, Benjamin Spreng, Paulo A. Maia Neto and Gert-Ludwig Ingold, Universe  7, 129  (2021)
    • Measurement of the Casimir force between 0.2 and 0.8 microns: experimental procedures and comparison with theory, G. Bimonte, B. Spreng, P. A. Maia Neto, G.-L. Ingold, G. L. Klimchitskaya, V. M. Mostepanenko and R. S. Decca, Universe 7, 93 (2021)

2020

  • Theory of optical tweezing of dielectric microspheres in chiral host media and its applications, R. Ali, R. S. Dutra,  F. A. Pinheiro, F. S. S. Rosa, and P. A. Maia Neto, Scientific Reports 10, 16481 (2020)
  • Probing the optical chiral response of single nanoparticles with optical tweezers,  R. Ali,  F. A. Pinheiro, R. S. Dutra,  F. S. S. Rosa, and P. A. Maia Neto,  J. Optical Soc. Am. B 37,  2796 (2020)
  • Tailoring optical pulling forces with composite microspheres, R. Ali,  F. A. Pinheiro, R. S. Dutra,  and P. A. Maia Neto, Physical Review A  102, 023514 (2020) 
  • Plane-wave approach to the exact van der Waals interaction between colloid particles, B. Spreng, P. A. Maia Neto and G.-L. Ingold, J. Chem. Phys. 153, 024115 (2020)
  • Enantioselective manipulation of single chiral nanoparticles using optical tweezers, R. Ali,   R. S. Dutra,  F. A. Pinheiro, F. S. S. Rosa, and P. A. Maia Neto, Nanoscale  12, 5031-5037 (2020)