Thermal Casimir Effect in the Plane-Sphere Geometry

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2009-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/0911.0913v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.104:040403,2010

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.040403

The thermal Casimir force between two metallic plates is known to depend on the description of material properties. For large separations the dissipative Drude model leads to a force a factor of 2 smaller than the lossless plasma model. Here we show that the plane-sphere geometry, in which current experiment are performed, decreases this ratio to a factor of 3/2, as revealed by exact numerical and large distance analytical calculations. For perfect reflectors, we find a repulsive contribution of thermal photons to the force and negative entropy values at intermediate distances.

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