Casimir-polder Forces in the Presence of the Cosmic Photon Heat Bath
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We study the effect of a photon background at finite temperature T on the Van der Waals interactions among neutral bodies. It turns out that the long-range Casimir-Polder force is unaffected for distances much less than T −1 and strongly enhanced for distances much above T −1 .
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تاریخ انتشار 1999