Towards a precision measurement of the Casimir force in a cylinder-plane geometry
Abstract
We report on a proposal aimed at measuring the Casimir force in a cylinder-plane configuration. The Casimir force is evaluated including corrections due to finite parallelism, conductivity, and temperature. The range of validity of the proximity force approximation is also discussed. An apparatus to test the feasibility of a precision measurement in this configuration has been developed, and we describe both a procedure to control the parallelism and the results of the electrostatic calibration. Finally, we discuss the possibility of measuring the thermal contribution to the Casimir force and deviations from the proximity force approximation, both of which are expected at relatively large distances.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0511005,
title = {Towards a precision measurement of the Casimir force in a cylinder-plane geometry},
author = {Michael Brown-Hayes and Diego A. R. Dalvit and Francisco D. Mazzitelli and Woo-Joong Kim and Roberto Onofrio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0511005},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages, 13 figures (.eps format, higher-resolution figures in published version)