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Phys. Rev. A 71, 013814 (2005) [15 pages]

Casimir force acting on magnetodielectric bodies embedded in media

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Christian Raabe and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch
Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany

Received 13 August 2004; published 19 January 2005

Within the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics, general expressions for the Casimir force acting on linearly and causally responding magnetodielectric bodies that can be embedded in another linear and causal magnetodielectric medium are derived. Consistency with microscopic harmonic-oscillator models of the matter is shown. The theory is applied to planar structures, and proper generalizations of Casimir’s and Lifshitz-type formulas are given.


©2005 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.013814
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.013814
PACS: 42.50.Nn, 03.70.+k, 12.20.Ds, 42.60.Da

See Also

Comment: Iver Brevik and Simen A. Ellingsen, Comment on “Casimir force acting on magnetodielectric bodies embedded in media”, Phys. Rev. A 79, 027801 (2009)

Comment: L. P. Pitaevskii, Comment on “Casimir force acting on magnetodielectric bodies embedded in media”, Phys. Rev. A 73, 047801 (2006)

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