Casimir energy in spherical cavities

Details Casimir energy in spherical cavities Casimir energy in spherical cavities

2008-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/0801.2984v1

J. Phys. A 41 (2008) 164006

Physics

Quantum Physics

9 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of QFEXT07. To be published in J. Phys. A

Scientific paper

10.1088/1751-8113/41/16/164006

We calculate the Casimir energy at spherical cavities within a host made up of an arbitrary material described by a possibly dispersive and lossy dielectric response. To that end, we add to the coherent optical response a contribution that takes account of the incoherent radiation emitted by the host in order to guarantee the detailed balance required to keep the system at thermodynamic equilibrium in the presence of dissipation. The resulting boundary conditions allow a conventional quantum mechanical treatment of the radiation within the cavity from which we obtain the contribution of the cavity walls to the density of states, and from it, the thermodynamic properties of the system. The contribution of the cavity to the energy diverges as it incorporates the interaction energy between neighbor atoms in a continuum description. The change in the energy of an atom situated at the center of the cavity due to its interaction with the fluctuating cavity field is however finite. We evaluate the latter for a simple case.

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