Three-body Casimir effects and non-monotonic forces

Details Three-body Casimir effects and non-monotonic forces Three-body Casimir effects and non-monotonic forces

2009-05-04

arxiv.org/abs/0905.0448v1

Phys. Rev. A 80, 022519 (2009).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

Casimir interactions are not pair-wise additive. This property leads to collective effects that we study for a pair of objects near a conducting wall. We employ a scattering approach to compute the interaction in terms of fluctuating multipoles. The wall can lead to a non-monotonic force between the objects. For two atoms with anisotropic electric and magnetic dipole polarizabilities we demonstrate that this non-monotonic effect results from a competition between two- and three body interactions. By including higher order multipoles we obtain the force between two macroscopic metallic spheres for a wide range of sphere separations and distances to the wall.

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