Abstract

We investigate the Casimir effect at a finite temperature in the electromagnetic Rindler space, and we find that the Casimir energy is proportional to $\frac{T^4}{d^2}$ in the high-temperature limit, where $T\approx 27°\mathrm{C}$ is the temperature and $d\approx 100\mathrm{nm}$ is a small cutoff. We propose to make metamaterials to mimic the Rindler space and measure the predicted Casimir effect. Because the parameters of metamaterials we proposed are quite simple, this experiment would be easily implemented in the laboratory.

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