Casimir interaction between metal-dielectric metamaterial slabs: Attraction at all macroscopic distances

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Silveirinha, Mário G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

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EID: 77957589548     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.085101     Document Type: Article

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20. The proof for a positive operator P I > 0 is straightforward; the result is also valid for non-negative operators because such operators can be perturbed to become positive, and because the det (.) function is continuous.