Repulsive Casimir force as a result of vacuum radiation pressure

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 381-384

  Hushwater, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 0031491861     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.18548     Document Type: Article

References (15)

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3. For recent reviews see V. Mostepanenko and N. Trunov, "The Casimir effect and its applications," Sov. Phys. Usp. 31, 965-987 (1988); G. Feinberg, J. Sucher, and C. K. Au, "Dispersion theory of dispersion forces," Phys. Rep. 180, 83-157 (1989); P. Milonni, The Quantum Vacuum (Academic, Boston, 1993); Long-range Casimir Forces, edited by F. S. Levin and D. A. Micha (Plenum, New York, 1993).
4. For recent reviews see V. Mostepanenko and N. Trunov, "The Casimir effect and its applications," Sov. Phys. Usp. 31, 965-987 (1988); G. Feinberg, J. Sucher, and C. K. Au, "Dispersion theory of dispersion forces," Phys. Rep. 180, 83-157 (1989); P. Milonni, The Quantum Vacuum (Academic, Boston, 1993); Long-range Casimir Forces, edited by F. S. Levin and D. A. Micha (Plenum, New York, 1993).
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9. This argument is also given by E. Hinds, in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, edited by P. Berman (Academic, Boston, 1994), p. 30.
10. After completing this work, I learned that the same qualitative point was made earlier by G. Barton in Ref. 6, p. 444.
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12. See the Appendix for a shortened version of the derivation of Eq. (3) given by S. Haroche, in Fundamental Systems in Quantum Optics, edited by J. Dalibard, J. Raimond, and J. Zinn-Justin (Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 1992), p. 809.
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15. It was rightly noticed that, "Understanding the signs is a sign of understanding" (J. Sucher, private communication).