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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bimonte, Giuseppe, Emig, Thorsten, Kardar, Mehran
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics (AIP) 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76612
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-5912