Material dependence of Casimir forces: Gradient expansion beyond proximity

A widely used method for estimating Casimir interactions [H. B. G. Casimir, Proc. K. Ned. Akad. Wet. 51, 793 (1948)] between gently curved material surfaces at short distances is the proximity force approximation (PFA). While this approximation is asymptotically exact at vanishing separations, quant...

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Main Authors: Bimonte, Giuseppe (Author), Emig, Thorsten (Author), Kardar, Mehran (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2013-01-25T19:19:16Z.
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