Casimir Forces in Chiral Metamaterials

We use the extended Lifshitz theory to study the behavior of the Casimir forces between chiral metamaterials and regular metamaterials. We have shown that the chirality, if strong enough, is of critical importance to reduce the Cassimir attractive force and can find new designs to obtain repulsive Casimir forces. We will review chiral metamaterials and find some analytical expression for the strengths of electrical permittivity, magnetic permeability and chirality for passive materials.