Casimir Energies for Isorefractive or Diaphanous Balls

It is known that the Casimir self-energy of a homogeneous dielectric ball is divergent, although a finite self-energy can be extracted through second order in the deviation of the permittivity from the vacuum value. The exception occurs when the speed of light inside the spherical boundary is the sa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kimball A. Milton, Iver Brevik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-03-01
Series:Symmetry
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/10/3/68