Repulsive Casimir forces and the role of surface modes
arXiv:0908.2351 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.80.042510
Abstract
The Casimir repulsion between a metal and a dielectric suspended in a liquid has been thoroughly studied in recent experiments. In the present paper we consider surface modes in three layered systems modeled by dielectric functions guaranteeing repulsion. It is shown that surface modes play a decisive role in this phenomenon at short separations. For a toy plasma model we find the contribution of the surface modes at all distances.
13 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRA
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