Attractive electromagnetic Casimir stress on a spherical dielectric shell
Date
2013
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Elsevier
Abstract
Based on calculations involving an idealized boundary condition, it has long been assumed that the stress on a spherical conducting shell is repulsive. We use the more realistic case of a Drude dielectric to show that the stress is attractive, matching the generic behavior of Casimir forces in electromagnetism. We trace the discrepancy between these two cases to interactions between the electromagnetic quantum fluctuations and the dielectric material.
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CITATION: Graham, N., Quandt, M. & Weigel, H. 2013. Attractive electromagnetic Casimir stress on a spherical dielectric shell. Physics Letters B, 726(4–5):846-849, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.09.025.
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Casimir effect
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Graham, N., Quandt, M. & Weigel, H. 2013. Attractive electromagnetic Casimir stress on a spherical dielectric shell. Physics Letters B, 726(4–5):846-849, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.09.025.