Comment on " Low-frequency character of the Casimir force between metallic films"

Abstract

In Phys. Rev. {\bf E 70}, 047102 (2004), J.R. Torgerson and S.K. Lamoreaux investigated for the first time the real-frequency spectrum of finite temperature correction to the Casimir force, for metallic plates of finite conductivity. The very interesting result of this study is that the correction from the TE mode is dominated by low frequencies, for which the dielectric description of the metal is invalid. However, their analysis of the problem, based on more appropriate low-frequency metallic boundary conditions, uses an incorrect form of boundary conditions for TE modes. We repeat their analysis, using the correct boundary conditions. Our computations confirm their most important result: contrary to the result of the dielectric model, the thermal TE mode correction leads to an increase in the TE mode force of attraction between the plates. The magnitude of the correction has a value about twenty times larger than that quoted by them.

3 pages, 2 figures. In press on Phys. Rev. E

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