Casimir-Polder forces: A nonperturbative approach

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5 A, 2004, Pages

  Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi ^a   Knöll, Ludwig ^a   Welsch, Dirk Gunnar ^a   Dung, Ho Trung ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Vietnam National University Institute of Physics   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; GROUND STATE; INTERFEROMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POLARIZATION;

ATOMIC INTERFEROMETRY; ATOMIC POLARIZABILITY; CASIMIR-POLDER (CP) FORCES; MULTIPOLAR COUPLING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 19944428916     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.052117     Document Type: Article

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