Three-dimensional casimir force between absorbing multilayer dielectrics

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Raabe, Christian ^a   Knöll, Ludwig ^a   Welsch, Dirk Gunnar ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MULTILAYERS; PERMITTIVITY; TENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CASIMIR FORCE; GREEN TENSOR; ONE DIMENSIONAL THEORY; QUANTIZATION; ZERO TEMPERATURE LIMIT;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0242442503     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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