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Casimir Energy for a Purely Dielectric Cylinder by the Mode Summation Method

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1 Astrophysics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We use the mode summation method together with zeta-function regularization to compute the Casimir energy of a dilute dielectric cylinder. The method is very transparent, and sheds light on the reason the resulting energy vanishes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0504207,
  title  = {Casimir Energy for a Purely Dielectric Cylinder by the Mode Summation Method},
  author = {August Romeo and Kimball A. Milton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0504207},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, REVTeX, no figures