Analytic approach to the thermal Casimir force between metal and dielectric

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2007.04.005MaRDI QIDQ2472349zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. L. Klimchitskaya, V. M. Mostepanenko, B. Geyer

Publication date 21 February 2008

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3818

zbMATH Keywords

Casimir forceLifshitz formulaNernst heat theoremthermal corrections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: The analytic asymptotic expressions for the Casimir free energy, pressure and entropy at low temperature in the configuration of one metal and one dielectric plate are obtained. For this purpose we develop the perturbation theory in a small parameter proportional to the product of the separation between the plates and the temperature. This is done using both the simplified model of an ideal metal and of a dielectric with constant dielectric permittivity and for the realistic case of the metal and dielectric with frequency-dependent dielectric permittivities. The analytic expressions for all related physical quantities at high temperature are also provided. The obtained analytic results are compared with numerical computations and good agreement is found. We demonstrate for the first time that the Lifshitz theory, when applied to the configuration of metal-dielectric, satisfies the requirements of thermodynamics if the static dielectric permittivity of a dielectric plate is finite. If it is infinitely large, the Lifshitz formula is shown to violate the Nernst heat theorem. The implications of these results for the thermal quantum field theory in Matsubara formulation and for the recent measurements of the Casimir force between metal and semiconductor surfaces are discussed.

Review text

The authors obtain the analytic expressions for the Casimir free energy, pressure and entropy at low temperatures in the configuration of one metal and one dielectric plate. Different models of the dielectric response for both metal and dielectric were considered: the simplified model of an ideal and dielectric with constant dielectric permittivity, and the realistic case of the metal and dielectric with frequency dependent dielectric permittivities. The analytic expressions for all related physical quantities at high temperature are also provided. The analytical results are compared with numerical computations using Lifshitz formula and tabulated optical data. The fundamental conclusion arrived in the paper is that the Lifshitz theory applied to the configuration of one metal and one dielectric plate is in agreement with thermodynamics if the dielectric permittivity of a dielectric plate at zero frequency is finite.

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