Casimir Stabilization of Fluctuating Electronic Nematic Order

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05088v1
• Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:56:01 GMT
• Title: Casimir Stabilization of Fluctuating Electronic Nematic Order
• Authors: Ola Carlsson, Sambuddha Chattopadhyay, Jonathan B. Curtis, Frieder Lindel, Lorenzo Graziotto, Jérôme Faist, Eugene Demler,
• Abstract summary: In nematic Fermi liquids, different orientations of the electronic order are often energetically degenerate.<n>By engineering the electromagnetic environment of the electronic system, we show that the Casimir energy can be used to stabilize particular orientations of the nematic order.<n>For experimentally feasible setups, the anisotropy induced by the orientation dependent Casimir energy can be $104$ times larger than other mechanisms known to stabilize quantum Hall stripes.
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• Abstract: Vacuum cavity control of quantum materials is the engineering of quantum materials systems through electromagnetic zero-point fluctuations. In this work we articulate a generic mechanism for vacuum optical control of correlated electronic order: Casimir control, where the zero-point energy of the electromagnetic continuum, the Casimir energy, depends on the properties of the material system. To assess the experimental viability of this mechanism we focus on the Casimir stabilization of fluctuating nematic order. In nematic Fermi liquids, different orientations of the electronic order are often energetically degenerate. Thus, while local domains of fixed orientation may form, thermal disordering inhibits long range order. By engineering the electromagnetic environment of the electronic system, however, we show that the Casimir energy can be used as a tool to preferentially stabilize particular orientations of the nematic order. As a concrete example, we examine the interplay between a birefringent crystal -- which sources an anisotropic electromagnetic environment -- and a quantum Hall stripe system, an archetypal nematic Fermi fluid. We show that for experimentally feasible setups, the anisotropy induced by the orientation dependent Casimir energy can be $10^4$ times larger than other mechanisms known to stabilize quantum Hall stripes. This finding convincingly implies that our setting may be realized with currently available experimental technology. Having demonstrated that the Casimir energy can be used to stabilize fluctuating nematic order, we close by discussing the implications for recent terahertz cavity experiments on quantum Hall stripes, as well as pave the road towards broader Casimir control of competing correlated electronic phases.

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