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dc.contributor.authorBrevik, Iver Håkon
dc.contributor.authorEllingsen, Simen Andreas
dc.contributor.authorMilton, Kimball A.
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-29T11:25:14Z
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-15T13:32:07Z
dc.date.available2015-09-29T11:25:14Z
dc.date.available2015-10-15T13:32:07Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationNew Journal of Physics 2006, 8:1-20nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn1367-2630
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2356243
dc.description.abstractThe Casimir effect, reflecting quantum vacuum fluctuations in the electromagnetic field in a region with material boundaries, has been studied both theoretically and experimentally since 1948. The forces between dielectric and metallic surfaces both plane and curved have been measured at the 10–1% level in a variety of room temperature experiments, and remarkable agreement with the zero-temperature theory has been achieved. In fitting the data various corrections due to surface roughness, patch potentials, curvature, and temperature have been incorporated. It is the latter that is the subject of the present paper. We point out that, in fact, no temperature dependence has yet been detected, and that the experimental situation is still too fluid to permit conclusions about thermal corrections to the Casimir effect. Theoretically, there are subtle issues concerning thermodynamics and electrodynamics which have resulted in disparate predictions concerning the nature of these corrections. However, a general consensus has seemed to emerge that suggests that the temperature correction to the Casimir effect is relatively large, and should be observable in future experiments involving surfaces separated at the few micrometre scale.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherIOP Publishingnb_NO
dc.titleThermal corrections to the Casimir effectnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer revieweden_GB
dc.date.updated2015-09-29T11:25:14Z
dc.source.volume8nb_NO
dc.source.journalNew Journal of Physicsnb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1367-2630/8/10/236
dc.identifier.cristin378609
dc.description.localcode© IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Creative Commons Attribution License.nb_NO


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