Casimir potential of a compact object enclosed by a spherical cavity

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Zaheer, Saad ^e   Rahi, Sahand Jamal ^a   Emig, Thorsten ^b,c   Jaffe, Robert L ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASIMIR; CASIMIR FORCE; CASIMIR INTERACTIONS; CLOSED CAVITY; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; COMPACT OBJECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RESPONSE; INTERACTION ENERGIES; METALLIC SPHERES; MULTIPOLES; POLARIZABILITIES; POWER LAW; PROXIMITY FORCE APPROXIMATION; SCATTERING MATRICES; SPHERICAL CAVITIES; SPHERICAL SHELL; TRANSLATION MATRICES; UNIVERSAL FUNCTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; QUANTUM THEORY;

SPHERES;

EID: 78649547537     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.052507     Document Type: Article

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