Casimir-Polder interaction for gently curved surfaces

We use a derivative expansion for gently curved surfaces to compute the leading and the next-to-leading curvature corrections to the Casimir-Polder interaction between a polarizable small particle and a nonplanar surface. While our methods apply to any homogeneous and isotropic surface, explicit res...

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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:English
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91244
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-5912