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Semi-Classical Electrodynamics and the Casimir Effect

Quantum Physics 2024-02-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

From the late 1960s and onwards the groups of Barry Ninham and Adrian Parsegian, and their many collaborators, made a number of important contributions to theory and experiment of intermolecular forces. In particular, they explored the semi-classical theory: Maxwell's equations and Planck quantization of light \rightarrow Lifshitz and Casimir interactions. We discuss some selected thought-provoking results from Ninham and his group. Some of the results have been conceived as controversial but, we dare, say never uninteresting.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2402.11326,
  title  = {Semi-Classical Electrodynamics and the Casimir Effect},
  author = {M. Boström and A. Gholamhosseinian and S. Pal and Y. Li and I. Brevik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11326},
  year   = {2024}
}
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