Dependence of the direction of the Casimir force on the shape of the boundary

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Schaden, Martin ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN BRIDGES; CASIMIR FORCES; DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; INTERACTION ENERGIES; MASSLESS SCALAR FIELDS; NUMERICAL STUDIES;

EID: 61349103130     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.060402     Document Type: Article

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