Torque on birefringent plates induced by quantum fluctuations

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Munday, Jeremy N ^a   Iannuzzi, Davide ^b   Barash, Yuri ^c   Capasso, Federico ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENT SLABS; PLATE SEPARATION; QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS; VAN DER WAALS REPULSION;

ANISOTROPY; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; BIREFRINGENCE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TORQUE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 27144465535     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.042102     Document Type: Article

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