Casimir Repulsion between Metallic Objects in Vacuum

We give an example of a geometry in which two metallic objects in vacuum experience a repulsive Casimir force. The geometry consists of an elongated metal particle centered above a metal plate with a hole. We prove that this geometry has a repulsive regime using a symmetry argument and confirm it wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Levin, Michael, McCauley, Alexander Patrick, Rodriguez, Alejandro W., Reid, M. T. Homer, Johnson, Steven G.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60908
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-4967