Material dependence of Casimir forces: gradient expansion beyond proximity

Details Material dependence of Casimir forces: gradient expansion beyond proximity Material dependence of Casimir forces: gradient expansion beyond proximity

2011-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/1112.1366v2

Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 074110 (2012)

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 2 figures

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A widely used method for estimating Casimir interactions [H. B. G. Casimir, Proc. K. Ned. Akad. Wet. 51, 793 (1948)] between gently curved material surfaces at short distances is the proximity force approximation (PFA). While this approximation is asymptotically exact at vanishing separations, quantifying corrections to PFA has been notoriously difficult. Here we use a derivative expansion to compute the leading curvature correction to PFA for metals (gold) and insulators (SiO$_2$) at room temperature. We derive an explicit expression for the amplitude $\hat\theta_1$ of the PFA correction to the force gradient for axially symmetric surfaces. In the non-retarded limit, the corrections to the Casimir free energy are found to scale logarithmically with distance. For gold, $\hat\theta_1$ has an unusually large temperature dependence.

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