| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 67, Number 4, August 2004
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 517 - 523 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2004-10099-3 | |
| Published online | 01 August 2004 | |
Casimir force between eccentric cylinders
1
Theoretical Division, MS B213, Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
2
Departamento de Física J. J. Giambiagi, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales Universidad de Buenos Aires - Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón I 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
3
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College 6127 Wilder Laboratory, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
4
Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Galilei”, Università di Padova Via Marzolo 8, Padova 35131, Italy
Received:
25
March
2004
Accepted:
9
June
2004
We consider the Casimir interaction between a cylinder and a hollow cylinder, both conducting, with parallel axis and slightly different radii. The Casimir force, which vanishes in the coaxial situation, is evaluated for both small and large eccentricities using the proximity approximation. The cylindrical configuration offers various experimental advantages with respect to the parallel planes or the plane-sphere geometries, leading to favourable conditions for the search of extra-gravitational forces in the micrometer range and for the observation of finite-temperature corrections.
PACS: 03.70.+k – Theory of quantized fields / 42.50.Pq – Cavity quantum electrodynamics; micromasers / 04.80.Cc – Experimental tests of gravitational theories
© EDP Sciences, 2004
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