BIMSA > BIMSA Colloquium Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Casimir Force
Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Casimir Force
Organizers
Tadahisa Funaki , Jinsong Wu
Speaker
Bing Miao
Time
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Venue
A6-101
Online
Zoom 388 528 9728 (BIMSA)
Abstract
Casimir force is a type of long range fluctuation-induced effective interaction. Since its introduction into physics through analyzing zero point quantum fluctuation of vacuum, it has been generalized to a broad contexts related to fluctuations whose origins could be quantum/thermal/stochastic, equilibrium/non-equilibrium. In this talk, I will start with a short survey on the history of Casimir physics. Then I will discuss our works on equilibrium Casimir force for a Euclidean field theory with higher-order derivative actions based on an exact calculation of Feynman path integrals; non-equilibrium steady state Casimir force for a driven electrolyte system in terms of the Dean-Kawasaki equation-based stochastic dynamic field theory.
Speaker Intro
Bing Miao is a Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He obtained his PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. Then he was a posdoc at St. Francis Xavier University, University of Guelph, and Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research since 2006-2011. He joined UCAS since 2011. He has a wide research interest in fluctuation-related physics and mathematics.