Comment on "Temperature dependence of the Casimir force for lossy bulk media"

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2010-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/1010.0946v1

Phys.Rev.A84:036501,2011

Physics

Quantum Physics

3 pages

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Recently Yampol'skii et al. [Phys. Rev. A v.82, 032511 (2010)] advocated that Lifshitz theory is not applicable when the characteristic wavelength of the fluctuating electromagnetic field, responsible for the thermal correction to the Casimir force, is larger than the size of the metal test bodies. It was claimed that this is the case in experiments which exclude Lifshitz theory combined with the Drude model. We calculate the wavelengths of the evanescent waves giving the dominant contribution to the thermal correction and we find that they are much smaller than the sizes of the test bodies. The opposite conclusion obtained by the authors arose from a confusion between propagating and evanescent waves.

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