Issue |
EPL
Volume 95, Number 1, July 2011
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Article Number | 14001 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/95/14001 | |
Published online | 14 June 2011 |
Electromagnetic Casimir energies of semi-infinite planes
1
Department of Physics, Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
2
Department of Physics, Middlebury College - Middlebury, VT 05753, USA
Received:
26
February
2011
Accepted:
12
May
2011
Using recently developed techniques based on scattering theory, we find the electromagnetic Casimir energy for geometries involving semi-infinite planes, a case that is of particular interest in the design of microelectromechanical devices. We obtain both approximate analytic formulae and exact results requiring only modest numerical computation. Using these results, we analyze the effects of edges and orientation on the Casimir energy. We also demonstrate the accuracy, simplicity, and utility of our approximation scheme, which is based on a multiple reflection expansion.
PACS: 42.50.Lc – Quantum fluctuations, quantum noise, and quantum jumps
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