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Surface plasmon modes and the Casimir energy.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Intravaia, Francesco Lambrecht, Astrid |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | We show the influence of surface plasmons on the Casimir effect between two plane parallel metallic mirrors at arbitrary distances. Using the plasma model to describe the optical response of the metal, we express the Casimir energy as a sum of contributions associated with evanescent surface plasmon modes and propagative cavity modes. In contrast to naive expectations, the plasmonic mode contribution is essential at all distances in order to ensure the correct result for the Casimir energy. One of the two plasmonic modes gives rise to a repulsive contribution, balancing out the attractive contributions from propagating cavity modes, while both contributions taken separately are much larger than the actual value of the Casimir energy. This also suggests possibilities to tailor the sign of the Casimir force via surface plasmons. |
| Starting Page | 110404 |
| Ending Page | 110404 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00011121/document |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/39402/filename/prl.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://hal.upmc.fr/file/index/docid/39402/filename/prl.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 15903834v1 |
| Volume Number | 94 |
| Issue Number | 11 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Body cavities Dental caries Distance Equilibrium Greater |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
