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From multiple scattering to van der Waals interactions: exact results for eccentric cylinders
Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar, Jef Wagner
In this paper, dedicated to the career of Iver Brevik, we review the derivation of the retarded van der Waals or Casimir-Polder interaction between polarizable molecules from the g…
Weak Coupling Casimir Energies for Finite Plate Configurations
Jef Wagner, Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar
We derive and use an extremely simplified formula for the interaction Casimir energy for two separate bodies in the weak coupling regime for massless scalar fields. We derive close…
Leading- and next-to-leading-order lateral Casimir force on corrugated surfaces
Ines Cavero-Pelaez, Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar +1
We derive explicit analytic expressions for the lateral force for two different configurations with corrugations, parallel plates and concentric cylinders. By making use of the mul…
Lateral Casimir forces on parallel plates and concentric cylinders with corugations
Ines Cavero-Pelaez, Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar +1
In this paper we are giving a quantitative description of two different configurations for noncontact gears. We consider the solutions from a perturbative calculation for two semit…
How Does Quantum Vacuum Energy Accelerate?
K. A. Milton, P. Parashar, J. Wagner +3
We show that Casimir energy for a configuration of parallel plates gravitates according to the equivalence principle both for the finite and divergent parts. This shows that the la…
Recent Developments in the Casimir Effect
K. A. Milton
In this talk I review various developments in the past year concerning quantum vacuum energy, the Casimir effect. In particular, there has been continuing controversy surrounding t…
Low temperature Casimir-Lifshitz free energy and entropy: the case of poor conductors
Simen A. Ådnøy Ellingsen, Iver Brevik, Johan S. Høye +1
The controversy concerning the temperature correction to the Casimir force has been ongoing for almost a decade with no view to a solution and has recently been extended to include…
Exact results for Casimir interactions between dielectric bodies: The weak-coupling or van der Waals Limit
Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar, Jef Wagner
In earlier papers we have applied multiple scattering techniques to calculate Casimir forces due to scalar fields between different bodies described by delta function potentials. W…
Vacuum Stress and Closed Paths in Rectangles, Pistons, and Pistols
S. A. Fulling, L. Kaplan, K. Kirsten +2
Rectangular cavities are solvable models that nevertheless touch on many of the controversial or mysterious aspects of the vacuum energy of quantum fields. This paper is a thorough…
Temperature Correction to Casimir-Lifshitz Free Energy at Low Temperatures: Semiconductors
Simen A. Ellingsen, Iver Brevik, Johan S. Høye +1
The Casimir force and free energy at low temperatures has been the subject of focus for some time. We calculate the temperature correction to the Casimir-Lifshitz free energy betwe…
Non-contact gears: II. Casimir torque between concentric corrugated cylinders for the scalar case
Ines Cavero-Pelaez, Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar +1
The Casimir interaction between two concentric corrugated cylinders provides the mechanism for non-contact gears. To this end, we calculate the Casimir torque between two such cyli…
Non-contact gears: I. Next-to-leading order contribution to lateral Casimir force between corrugated parallel plates
Ines Cavero-Pelaez, Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar +1
We calculate the lateral Casimir force between corrugated parallel plates, described by -function potentials, interacting through a scalar field, using the multiple scattering f…
Coulomb Resummation and Monopole Masses
K. A. Milton
The relativistic Coulomb resummation factor suggested by I.L. Solovtsov is used to reanalyze the mass limits obtained for magnetic monopoles which might have been produced at the F…
Casimir Energies: Temperature Dependence, Dispersion, and Anomalies
I. Brevik, K. A. Milton
Assuming the conventional Casimir setting with two thick parallel perfectly conducting plates of large extent with a homogeneous and isotropic medium between them, we discuss the p…