The low temperature behavior the Casimir-Polder energy for conductive plane

Abstract

The low temperature expansion of the free energy of atom/plane system is considered for general symmetric form of tensor conductivity of the plane. It is shown that the first correction is proportional to second order of the temperature $\sim T^2$ and comes from TM mode. The agreement of the expansion and exact expressions for different models of conductivity is numerically demonstrated.

8 pages, 5 figures