The Casimir Effect and Geometric Optics

Details The Casimir Effect and Geometric Optics The Casimir Effect and Geometric Optics

2003-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310194v3

Phys.Rev.Lett.92:070402,2004

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Quantum Physics

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.070402

We propose a new approach to the Casimir effect based on classical ray optics. We define and compute the contribution of classical optical paths to the Casimir force between rigid bodies. We reproduce the standard result for parallel plates and agree over a wide range of parameters with a recent numerical treatment of the sphere and plate with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Our approach improves upon proximity force approximation. It can be generalized easily to other geometries, other boundary conditions, to the computation of Casimir energy densities and to many other situations.

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