What this work contributes
At common temperature, the analyzed nonreciprocal Casimir system has forces derived from a free energy.
Where the evidence stops
Breaking optical reciprocity does not by itself create equilibrium self-acceleration.
Keep the conditions with the result
- Conditions
- Thermal equilibrium; nonreciprocal objects.
- Design use
- Keep equilibrium and externally driven heat-engine cases separate.
- Review access
- Author-repository abstract and journal metadata inspected; not full-text review.
- Publication
- Physical Review B 106, 115106
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.115106
Original source
David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky; Noah Graham; Mehran Kardar; Matthias Krüger. Equilibrium forces on non-reciprocal materials. Physical Review B 106, 115106 (2022).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.115106
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