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most citedQuantum Electromagnetic Stress Tensor in an Inhomogeneous Medium

22 citations · 90 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

quant-ph2023

Vacuum torque, propulsive forces, and anomalous tangential forces: Effects of nonreciprocal media out of thermal equilibrium

Kimball A. Milton, Xin Guo, Gerard Kennedy +2

From the generalized fluctuation-dissipation theorem, it is known that a body at rest made of nonreciprocal material may experience a torque, even in vacuum, if it is not in therma…

hep-th2022★ 4 cited

Casimir Self-Entropy of Nanoparticles with Classical Polarizabilities: Electromagnetic Field Fluctuations

Yang Li, Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar +3

Not only are Casimir interaction entropies not guaranteed to be positive, but also, more strikingly, Casimir self-entropies of bodies can be negative. Here, we attempt to interpret…

hep-th2022★ 12 cited

Energetics of quantum vacuum friction. II: Dipole fluctuations and field fluctuations

Xin Guo, Kimball A. Milton, Gerard Kennedy +3

As a second paper in series with arXiv:2108.01539, we discuss here quantum vacuum friction on an intrinsically dissipative particle. The friction arises not only from the field flu…

hep-th2021★ 17 cited

The energetics of quantum vacuum friction: Field fluctuations

Xin Guo, Kimball A. Milton, Gerard Kennedy +3

Quantum fluctuations can induce a friction on a neutral but polarizable particle and cause it to radiate energy even if the particle is moving in free space filled with blackbody r…

hep-th2020★ 8 cited

Self-force on moving electric and magnetic dipoles: dipole radiation, Vavilov-Čerenkov radiation, friction with a conducting surface, and the Einstein-Hopf effect

Kimball A. Milton, Hannah Day, Yang Li +2

The classical electromagnetic self-force on an arbitrary time-dependent electric or magnetic dipole moving with constant velocity in vacuum, and in a medium, is considered. Of cour…

physics.class-ph2019★ 6 cited

Electrodynamic friction of a charged particle passing a conducting plate

Kimball A. Milton, Yang Li, Xin Guo +1

The classical electromagnetic friction of a charged particle moving with prescribed constant velocity parallel to a planar imperfectly conducting surface is reinvestigated. As a co…

hep-th2019★ 21 cited

Casimir forces in inhomogeneous media: renormalization and the principle of virtual work

Yang Li, Kimball A. Milton, Xin Guo +2

We calculate the Casimir forces in two configurations, namely, three parallel dielectric slabs and a dielectric slab between two perfectly conducting plates, where the dielectric m…

hep-th2018★ 22 cited

Quantum Electromagnetic Stress Tensor in an Inhomogeneous Medium

Prachi Parashar, Kimball A. Milton, Yang Li +4

Continuing a program of examining the behavior of the vacuum expectation value of the stress tensor in a background which varies only in a single direction, we here study the elect…