Classical Casimir interaction of perfectly conducting sphere and plate

Abstract

We study the Casimir interaction between perfectly conducting sphere and plate in the classical limit of high temperatures. By taking the small-distance expansion of the exact scattering formula, we compute the leading correction to the Casimir energy beyond the commonly employed proximity force approximation. We find that for a sphere of radius $R$ at distance $d$ from the plate the correction is of the form ${\ln }^2(d/R)$, in agreement with indications from recent large-scale numerical computations. We develop a fast-converging numerical scheme for computing the Casimir interaction to high precision, based on bispherical partial waves, and we verify that the short-distance formula provides precise values of the Casimir energy also for fairly large distances.

10 pages, 3 figures. Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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