Repulsive Casimir forces and the role of surface modes
Quantum Physics
2009-11-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The Casimir repulsion between a metal and a dielectric suspended in a liquid has been thoroughly studied in recent experiments. In the present paper we consider surface modes in three layered systems modeled by dielectric functions guaranteeing repulsion. It is shown that surface modes play a decisive role in this phenomenon at short separations. For a toy plasma model we find the contribution of the surface modes at all distances.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0908.2351,
title = {Repulsive Casimir forces and the role of surface modes},
author = {I. Pirozhenko and A. Lambrecht},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.2351},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRA