Attractive electromagnetic Casimir stress on a spherical dielectric shell

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2013.09.025MaRDI QIDQ5963879zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Noah Graham, Markus Quandt, Herbert Weigel

Publication date 26 February 2016

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5144

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

Abstract: Based on calculations involving an idealized boundary condition, it has long been assumed that the stress on a spherical conducting shell is repulsive. We use the more realistic case of a Drude dielectric to show that the stress is attractive, matching the generic behavior of Casimir forces in electromagnetism. We trace the discrepancy between these two cases to interactions between the electromagnetic quantum fluctuations and the dielectric material.

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