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Abstract. The thermal Casimir effect in ideal metal rectangular boxes is considered using the method of zeta functional regularization. The renormalization procedure is suggested which provides the finite expression for the Casimir free energy in any restricted quantization volume. This expression satisfies the classical limit at high temperature and leads to zero thermal Casimir force for syst...

T. Baehr-Jones,* M. Hochberg, Richard Soref, and A. Scherer Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125 Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate, Electromagnetic Technology Division, 80 Scott Drive, Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford, Massachusetts 01731-2909 E-mail: [email protected] *Corresponding author: ...

We describe the light-matter interaction of a single two level atom with the electromagnetic vacuum in terms of field and dipole variables by considering homodyne detection of the emitted fields. Spontaneous emission is then observed as a continuous fluctuating force acting on the atomic dipole. The effect of this force may be compensated and even reversed by feedback.

The lateral Casimir-Polder force between an atom and a corrugated surface should allow one to study experimentally nontrivial geometrical effects in the electromagnetic quantum vacuum. Here, we derive the theoretical expression of this force in the scattering approach. We show that large corrections to the "proximity force approximation" could be measured using present-day technology with a Bos...

We present an analysis of the behaviour of the electromagnetic self-force for charged particles in a conformally static spacetime, interpreting the results with the help of optical geometry. Some conditions for the vanishing of the local terms in the self-force are derived and discussed. PACS: 04.20.Cv, 04.70.-s, 04.90.+e

We show that the electromagnetic field tensor and the Lorentz Force are both a natural consequence of the geometric structure of Minkowskian space, being related to infinitesimal boost and rotations in spacetime. The longstanding issue about the apparent empirical origin of the Lorentz Force is clarified.

We calculate the friction force between two semi-infinite solids in relative parallel motion (velocity V), and separated by a vacuum gap of width d. The friction force result from coupling via a fluctuating electromagnetic field, and can be considered as the dissipative part of the van der Waals interaction. We consider the dependence of the friction force on the temperature T , and present a d...