The Optical Approach to Casimir Effects
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-08-23 v1
Abstract
We propose a new approach to the Casimir effect based on classical ray optics. We define and compute the contribution of classical optical paths to the Casimir force between rigid bodies. Our approach improves upon the proximity force approximation. It can be generalized easily to arbitrary geometries, different boundary conditions, to the computation of Casimir energy densities and to many other situations. This is a brief introduction to the method. Joint work with R.L.Jaffe.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0408013,
title = {The Optical Approach to Casimir Effects},
author = {Antonello Scardicchio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0408013},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Talk given at the conference `Continuous Advances in QCD 2004', University of Minnesota