Accounting for dissipation in the scattering approach to the Casimir energy

DOI10.3390/SYM10020037MaRDI QIDQ2415040zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Romain Guérout, Gert-Ludwig Ingold, Astrid Lambrecht, Serge Reynaud

Publication date 20 May 2019

Published in Symmetry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01400

zbMATH Keywords

Casimir effectdissipationscattering theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

Abstract: We take dissipation into account in the derivation of the Casimir energy formula between two objects placed in a surrounding medium. The dissipation channels are considered explicitly in order to take advantage of the unitarity of the full scattering processes. We demonstrate that the Casimir energy is given by a scattering formula expressed in terms of the scattering amplitudes coupling internal channels and taking dissipation into account in an implicit way. We prove that this formula is also valid when the surrounding medium is dissipative.

Review text

Summary: We take dissipation into account in the derivation of the Casimir energy formula between two objects placed in a surrounding medium. The dissipation channels are considered explicitly in order to take advantage of the unitarity of the full scattering processes. We demonstrate that the Casimir energy is given by a scattering formula expressed in terms of the scattering amplitudes coupling internal channels and taking dissipation into account implicitly. We prove that this formula is also valid when the surrounding medium is dissipative.

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