Material dependence of Casimir forces: Gradient expansion beyond proximity

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Bimonte, Giuseppe ^a,b   Emig, Thorsten ^c   Kardar, Mehran ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIALLY SYMMETRIC; CASIMIR; CASIMIR FORCE; CASIMIR INTERACTIONS; CURVATURE CORRECTION; EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; FORCE GRADIENTS; MATERIAL SURFACE; PROXIMITY FORCE APPROXIMATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHORT DISTANCES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICS;

GOLD;

EID: 84857285935     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3686903     Document Type: Article

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