{
  "id": "2003.00760",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2020-03-02T11:02:36.000Z",
  "updated": "2020-03-02T11:02:36.000Z",
  "title": "On the heat transfer across a vacuum gap mediated by Casimir force",
  "authors": [
    "Svend-Age Biehs",
    "Achim Kittel",
    "Philippe Ben-Abdallah"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Following a recent report on experiments it has been claimed that a phonon heat transfer through a vacuum gap between two solids due to quantum fluctuations had been measured. Here we make a theoretical analyzis of this mechanism and demonstrate that the Casimir force driven heat flux is at least 15 orders of magnitude smaller than the near-field heat flux between two solids at any given separating distance. Moreover, we provide compelling arguments that the measures reported are no more and no less a measure of the virtual temperatures of vibrating modes which does not allow an access to the Casimir force driven heat flux.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2020-03-02T11:02:36.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "vacuum gap",
      "casimir force driven heat flux",
      "phonon heat transfer",
      "near-field heat flux",
      "quantum fluctuations"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}