Analysis of zero-point electromagnetic energy and Casimir forces in conducting rectangular cavities

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 521101-5211018

  Jordan Maclay, G ^a  

^a Quantum Fields LLC   (United States)

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