Casimir interaction of strained graphene

M. Bordag, I. Fialkovskiy, D. Vassilevich

Published 2017-03-07Version 1

We calculate the Casimir interaction of two freestanding graphene samples under uniaxial strain. Our approach fully takes retardation and dispersion into account and is based on quantum field theoretical expressions for conductivities in terms of the polarization operator. The force shows a rather weak dependence on the realistic values of strain, changing just by a few percent in its maximum as compared to the non-strained case.