Fictitious Cavity Approach to the Casimir Effect
Quantum Physics
2007-09-24 v1
Abstract
We obtain expressions for the Casimir energy and force following an approach which may be applied to cavities made up of arbitrary materials. In the case of planar cavities we obtain the well known Lifshitz formula. The approach is easily generalizable to other geometries.
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@article{arxiv.0709.3508,
title = {Fictitious Cavity Approach to the Casimir Effect},
author = {W. Luis Mochan and Carlos Villarreal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.3508},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, three figures, to be published in Rev. Mex. Fis