Negative Entropies in Casimir and Casimir-Polder Interactions
Quantum Physics
2017-06-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
It has been increasingly becoming clear that Casimir and Casimir-Polder entropies may be negative in certain regions of temperature and separation. In fact, the occurrence of negative entropy seems to be a nearly ubiquitous phenomenon. This is most highlighted in the quantum vacuum interaction of a nanoparticle with a conducting plate or between two nanoparticles. It has been argued that this phenomenon does not violate physical intuition, since the total entropy, including the self-entropies of the plate and the nanoparticle, should be positive. New calculations, in fact, seem to bear this out at least in certain cases.
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@article{arxiv.1605.01073,
title = {Negative Entropies in Casimir and Casimir-Polder Interactions},
author = {Kimball A. Milton and Li Yang and Pushpa Kalauni and Prachi Parashar and Romain Guérout and Gert-Ludwig Ingold and Astrid Lambrecht and Serge Reynaud},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01073},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
8 pages, 12 figures, extended version of talk at Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics, Prague, 2015