Thermally Excited Quasiparticles in Metals, Dispersion Forces, and the Thermal Anomaly

Abstract

We provide a brief review of the contribution of thermally excited carriers to dispersion forces. In a metal, these carriers generate charge and current fluctuations whose spectral frequencies are comparable to $k_{B}T/\hslash$. They are very likely responsible for the "plasma vs. Drude" anomaly.

Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on the Casimir Effect, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2019 (to be published)

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