Casimir Dispersion Forces and Orientational Pairwise Additivity
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Atomic Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
A path integral formulation is used to study the fluctuation-induced interactions between manifolds of arbitrary shape at large separations. It is shown that the form of the interactions crucially depends on the choice of the boundary condition. In particular, whether or not the Casimir interaction is pairwise additive is shown to depend on whether the ``metallic'' boundary condition corresponds to a ``grounded'' or an ``isolated'' manifold.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0002422,
title = {Casimir Dispersion Forces and Orientational Pairwise Additivity},
author = {Ramin Golestanian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0002422},
year = {2009}
}
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