Orientation dependence of Casimir forces

The Casimir interaction between two objects, or between an object and a plane, depends on their relative orientations. We make these angular dependences explicit by considering prolate or oblate spheroids. The variation with orientation is calculated exactly at asymptotically large distances for the...

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Main Authors: Emig, Thorsten (Contributor), Graham, Noah (Author), Jaffe, Robert L. (Contributor), Kardar, Mehran (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2010-02-12T13:39:53Z.
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