Creation of Van der Waals, Casimir, and many more stochastic forces, with light radiation pressure via optics of randomly fluctuating sources

Abstract

The mechanical action on matter of the electromagnetic field emitted by a fluctuating source is governed by its statistics. In particular, thermal sources and vacuum fluctuations exert on bodies those well-known Casimir (C) and Van der Waals (VdW) forces. However, we have recently demonstrated that partially coherent random electromagnetic fields emitted by tailored optical sources, induce a photonic force on particles which, in particular, may be equivalent to those of Van der Waals and Casimir.