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Huge Casimir effect at finite temperature in electromagnetic Rindler space

Optics 2015-05-30 v2 Materials Science General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate the Casimir effect at finite temperature in electromagnetic Rindler space, and find the Casimir energy is proportional to T4d2\frac{T^4}{d^2} in the high temperature limit, where T27CT\approx 27 ^\circ\mathrm{C} is the temperature and d100nmd\approx 100nm is a small cutoff. We propose to make metamaterials to mimic Rindler space and measure the predicted Casimir effect. Since the parameters of metamaterials we proposed are quite simple, this experiment would be easily implemented in laboratory.

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@article{arxiv.1110.1919,
  title  = {Huge Casimir effect at finite temperature in electromagnetic Rindler space},
  author = {Tian-Ming Zhao and Rong-Xin Miao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.1919},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, minor revision accepted by Optics Letters