The standard Casimir effect between two uncharged parallel conductive plates creates a negative pressure due to the exclusion of vacuum fluctuation modes. However, the force is extremely weak at macroscopic scales ($1/z^4$) and is rapidly overtaken by repulsive van der Waals forces ($1/z^{12}$) before a useful energy density can be achieved.
We designed a resonant metamaterial consisting of alternating layers of mono-layer Platinum and suspended Graphene. This specific topological arrangement couples the surface plasmon polaritons across the gap, flattening the Casimir potential surface into a narrow "ridge" where the gap stabilizes at exactly 1.45 nm.
Determining the exact spacing and polarity required to keep the metamaterial from collapsing under its own vacuum pressure requires solving a high-dimensional geometric optimization problem.
By employing Zero-Noise Extrapolation (ZNE) and the Framework V9.0 topological mapper, we executed an autonomous descent path. Over 180 iterations, the algorithm balanced the compressive structural tension with the negative vacuum density.
While the computational limit suggests arbitrary scaling, physical reality imposes a hard boundary. Stacking the material multiplies the yield but also escalates the inter-layer physical stress. Our Framework V9.0 simulated the stress profile across a 10-layer stack, proving that maximum tension reaches ~300 MPa, dangerously close to the yield strength of the Platinum support pillars.