On Casimir Forces for Media with Arbitrary Dielectric Properties

2002/06/19 by W. Luis Mochán, W. L. Mochan, C. Villarreal +6 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0206119

5 pages

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Abstract

We derive an expression for the Casimir force between slabs with arbitrary dielectric properties characterized by their reflection coefficients. The formalism presented here is applicable to media with a local or a non-local dielectric response, an infinite or a finite width, inhomogeneous dissipative, etc. Our results reduce to the Lifshitz formula for the force between semi-infinite dielectric slabs by replacing the reflection coefficients by the Fresnel amplitudes.

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