Casimir effect with dielectric matter in salted water and implications at the cell scale
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2601.09020 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 13 Jan 2026] Title:Casimir effect with dielectric matter in salted water and implications at the cell scale Authors:Larissa Inácio, Felipe S. S. Rosa, Astrid Lambrecht, Paulo A. Maia Neto, Serge Reynaud View a PDF of the paper titled Casimir effect with dielectric matter in salted water and implications at the cell scale, by Larissa In\'acio and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The Casimir interaction in salted water contains a universal contribution of electromagnetic fluctuations that makes it of a longer range than previously thought. The universal contribution dominates non universal ones at the distances relevant for actin fibers inside the cell. We discuss universal and non-universal contributions with a model mimicking biological matter. We also show that the universal Casimir effect should have important implications at the cell scale. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Optics (physics.optics) Cite as: arXiv:2601.09020 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2601.09020v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.09020 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Larissa Inacio [view email] [v1] Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:44:42 UTC (4,928 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Casimir effect with dielectric matter in salted water and implications at the cell scale, by Larissa In\'acio and 4 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-01 Change to browse by: cond-mat cond-mat.mes-hall physics physics.chem-ph physics.optics References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) Links to Code Toggle Papers with Code (What is Papers with Code?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)