Tag: Casimir-Polder Force

Introduction The Casimir-Polder force is a physical force arising from quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field in vacuum. It was first described by Dutch physicists Hendrik Casimir and Dirk Polder in 1948, who were investigating the interactions between molecules and a dielectric body. Quantum Electrodynamics and Vacuum Fluctuations Quantum electrodynamics (QED) tells us that even…