Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2000-12-27
Phys.Rev. D64 (2001) 045001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.64.045001
A new expansion is established for the Green's function of the electromagnetic field in a medium with arbitrary $\epsilon$ and $\mu$. The obtained Born series are shown to consist of two types of interactions - the usual terms (denoted $\cal P$) that appear in the Lifshitz theory combined with a new kind of terms (which we denote by $\cal Q$) associated with the changes in the permeability of the medium. Within this framework the case of uniform velocity of light ($\epsilon\mu={\rm const}$) is studied. We obtain expressions for the Casimir energy density and the first non-vanishing contribution is manipulated to a simplified form. For (arbitrary) spherically symmetric $\mu$ we obtain a simple expression for the electromagnetic energy density, and as an example we obtain from it the Casimir energy of a dielectric-diamagnetic ball. It seems that the technique presented can be applied to a variety of problems directly, without expanding the eigenmodes of the problem and using boundary condition considerations.
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