Temperature dependence of the Casimir effect between metallic mirrors
Quantum Physics
2009-11-06 v1
Abstract
We calculate the Casimir force and free energy for plane metallic mirrors at non-zero temperature. Numerical evaluations are given with temperature and conductivity effects treated simultaneously. The results are compared with the approximation where both effects are treated independently and the corrections simply multiplied. The deviation between the exact and approximated results takes the form of a temperature dependent function for which an analytical expression is given. The knowledge of this function allows simple and accurate estimations at the % level.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0002061,
title = {Temperature dependence of the Casimir effect between metallic mirrors},
author = {Cyriaque Genet and Astrid Lambrecht and Serge Reynaud},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0002061},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures, uses RevTeX