Casimir effect in dielectrics: Surface area contribution

Finite-temperature Casimir effect in the presence of nonlinear dielectrics

Casimir Problem in Spherical Dielectrics: a Quantum Statistical Mechanical Approach

The Casimir mutual free energy F for a system of two dielectric concentric nonmagnetic spherical bodies is calculated, at arbitrary temperatures. Whereas F has recently been evaluated for the special case of metals (refractive index n = ∞), here analogous results are presented for dielectrics, and shown graphically when n = 2.0. Our calculational method relies upon quantum statistical mechanics...

The Role of Surface Plasmon Modes in the Casimir Effect

In this paper we study the role of surface plasmon modes in the Casimir effect. First we write the Casimir energy as a sum over the modes of a real cavity. We may identify two sorts of modes, two evanescent surface plasmon modes and propagative modes. As one of the surface plasmon modes becomes propagative for some choice of parameters we adopt an adiabatic mode definition where we follow this ...

Casimir problem of spherical dielectrics: numerical evaluation for general permittivities.

The Casimir mutual free energy F for a system of two dielectric concentric nonmagnetic spherical bodies is calculated, at arbitrary temperatures. The present paper is a continuation of an earlier investigation [Phys. Rev. E 63, 051101 (2001)], in which F was evaluated in full only for the case of ideal metals (refractive index n= infinity ). Here, analogous results are presented for dielectrics...

SUBSTRATUM RADIATION AND CASIMIR EFFECT

A heuristic way to calculate the approximate value of the Casimir force is introduced