Comment on 'Temperature dependence of the Casimir effect'
- Department of Physics, Federal University of Paraiba, Caixa Postal 5008, CEP 58059-970, Joao Pessoa, Pb (Brazil)
- Department of Physics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 (United States)
- Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 (United States)
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leipzig University, Augustusplatz 10/11, 04109 Leipzig (Germany)
- North-West Technical University, Millionnaya St. 5, St. Petersburg 191065 (Russian Federation)
- Physics Department, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933 (United States)
- Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 (United States)
Recently, Brevik et al. [Phys. Rev. E, 71, 056101 (2005)] adduced arguments against the traditional approach to the thermal Casimir force between real metals and in favor of one of the alternative approaches. The latter assume zero contribution from the transverse electric mode at zero frequency in qualitative disagreement with unity as given by the thermal quantum field theory for ideal metals. Those authors claim that their approach is consistent with experiments as well as with thermodynamics. We demonstrate that these conclusions are incorrect. We show specifically that their results are contradicted by four recent experiments and also violate the third law of thermodynamics (the Nernst heat theorem)
- OSTI ID:
- 20778714
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, Vol. 73, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.028101; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-651X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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