Casimir Interaction between a Plate and a Cylinder
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet zu Koeln, Zuelpicher Strasse 77, 50937 Cologne (Germany)
- Center for Theoretical Physics and Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
- Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
We find the exact Casimir force between a plate and a cylinder, a geometry intermediate between parallel plates, where the force is known exactly, and the plate sphere, where it is known at large separations. The force has an unexpectedly weak decay {approx}L/[H{sup 3}ln(H/R)] at large plate-cylinder separations H (L and R are the cylinder length and radius), due to transverse magnetic modes. Path integral quantization with a partial wave expansion additionally gives a qualitative difference for the density of states of electric and magnetic modes, and corrections at finite temperatures.
- OSTI ID:
- 20778719
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 96, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.080403; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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