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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…