A microscopic approach to Casimir and Casimir-Polder forces between metallic bodies

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.02.012zbMATH Open1343.81195arXiv1408.7066OpenAlexW2049344219MaRDI QIDQ307202FDOQ307202

Pablo Barcellona, R. Passante

Publication date: 1 September 2016

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

Abstract: We consider the Casimir-Polder interaction energy between a metallic nanoparticle and a metallic plate, as well as the Casimir interaction energy between two macroscopic metal plates, in terms of the many-body dispersion interactions between their constituents. Expressions for two- and three-body dispersion interactions between the microscopic parts of a real metal are first obtained, both in the retarded and non-retarded limits. These expressions are then used to evaluate, a compare each other, the overall two- and three-body contributions to the macroscopic Casimir-Polder and Casimir force, by summing up the contributions from the microscopic constituents of the bodies (metal nanoparticles), for two geometries: metal nanoparticle/half-space and half-space/half-space, where all the materials are assumed perfect conductors. In the case of nanoparticle/half-space, our results fully agree with those that can be extracted from the corresponding macroscopic results, and explicitly show the non-applicability of the pairwise approximation for the geometry considered. In both cases, we find that, while the overall two-body contribution yields an attractive force, the overall three-body contribution is repulsive. Also, they turn out to be of the same order, consistently with the known nonapplicability of the pairwise approximation. The issue of the rapidity of convergence of the many-body expansion is also briefly discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.7066

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zbMATH Keywords

Casimir effectCasimir-Polder interaction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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