{
  "id": "2501.17793",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2025-01-29T17:32:48.000Z",
  "updated": "2025-01-29T17:32:48.000Z",
  "title": "Perspectives on Quantum Friction, Self-Propulsion, and Self-Torque",
  "authors": [
    "Kimball A. Milton",
    "Nima Pourtolami",
    "Gerard Kennedy"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2411.14274",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "This paper provides an overview of the nonequilibrium fluctuational forces and torques acting on a body either in motion or at rest relative to another body or the thermal vacuum blackbody radiation. For a moving body, a retarding force emerges, called quantum or Casimir friction, which in vacuum was first predicted by Einstein and Hopf in 1907. Moreover, if a stationary body is not in thermal equilibrium with the blackbody vacuum, a self-propulsive force or torque can appear, resulting in a potentially observable linear or angular terminal velocity, even after thermalization.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2025-01-29T17:32:48.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum friction",
      "perspectives",
      "self-propulsion",
      "self-torque",
      "thermal vacuum blackbody radiation"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}