Levitation of finite‐size electric dipole over epsilon‐near‐zero metamaterial

Following the suggestion of Rodriguez‐Fortuno et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 , 033902 (2014)], we study the repulsive force acting on a electric dipole placed over a surface of epsilon‐near‐zero (ENZ) metamaterial. The dependence of the repulsive force value on the dipole size has been studied. We show that the effect of finite size drastically affects the values of the repulsive force as compared to the point‐dipole case. (© 2014 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim)