DISPERSION FORCES AND DUALITY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X09045376MaRDI QIDQ3397938zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, Stefan Scheel, Hassan Safari, Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

Publication date 25 September 2009

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.4298

zbMATH Keywords

dispersion forcesinteratomic potentialsmacroscopic quantum electrodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Atomic physics (81V45) Molecular physics (81V55) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: We formulate a symmetry principle on the basis of the duality of electric and magnetic fields and apply it to dispersion forces. Within the context of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics, we rigorously establish duality invariance for the free electromagnetic field in the presence of causal magnetoelectrics. Dispersion forces are given in terms of the Green tensor for the electromagnetic field and the atomic response functions. After discussing the behavior of the Green tensor under a duality transformation, we are able to show that Casimir forces on bodies in free space as well as local-field corrected Casimir-Polder and van der Waals forces are duality invariant.

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