Three-body Casimir effects and nonmonotonic forces

Casimir interactions are not pairwise additive. This property leads to collective effects that we study for a pair of objects near a conducting wall. We employ a scattering approach to compute the interaction in terms of fluctuating multipoles. The wall can lead to a nonmonotonic force between the o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rodriguez-Lopez, Pablo, Rahi, Sahand Jamal, Emig, Thorsten
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51072