New features of the thermal Casimir force at small separations
Quantum Physics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
The difference of the thermal Casimir forces at different temperatures between real metals is shown to increase with a decrease of the separation distance. This opens new opportunities for the demonstration of the thermal dependence of the Casimir force. Both configurations of two parallel plates and a sphere above a plate are considered. Different approaches to the theoretical description of the thermal Casimir force are shown to lead to different measurable predictions.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0302149,
title = {New features of the thermal Casimir force at small separations},
author = {F. Chen and G. L. Klimchitskaya and U. Mohideen and V. M. Mostepanenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0302149},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett