Casimir-Lifshitz forces and radiative heat transfer between moving bodies
Statistical Mechanics
2010-12-24 v2
Abstract
Recently Philbin et al. (New J. Phys. 11 (2009) 033035; arXiv:0904.2148v3) presented a new theory of the van der Waals friction. Contrary to the previous theories they claimed that there is no "quantum friction" at zero temperature. We show that this theory is incorrect.
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@article{arxiv.1005.4296,
title = {Casimir-Lifshitz forces and radiative heat transfer between moving bodies},
author = {A. I. Volokitin and B. N. J. Persson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.4296},
year = {2010}
}
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5 pages, 1 figures