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quant-ph2006★ 84 cited
Comment on the sign of the Casimir force
C. P. Bachas
I show that reflection positivity implies that the force between any mirror pair of charge-conjugate probes of the quantum vacuum is attractive. This generalizes a recent theorem o…
hep-th2006★ 5 cited
Wetting and Minimal Surfaces
Constantin Bachas, Pierre Le Doussal, Kay Joerg Wiese
We study minimal surfaces which arise in wetting and capillarity phenomena. Using conformal coordinates, we reduce the problem to a set of coupled boundary equations for the contac…
physics.pop-ph2006
Superstring theories
Constantin Bachas, Jan Troost
We briefly review superstring theories, highlighting the important concepts, developments, and open problems of the subject.