Matter-screened Casimir force and Casimir–Polder force in planar structures
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Matter-screened Casimir force and Casimir-Polder force in planar structures
Using a recently developed theory of the Casimir force (Raabe C and Welsch D-G 2005 Phys. Rev. A 71 013814), we calculate the force that acts on a plate in front of a planar wall and the force that acts on the plate in the case where the plate is part of matter that fills the space in front of the wall. We show that in the limit of a dielectric plate whose permittivity is close to unity, the fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1464-4266,1741-3575
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4266/7/12/024