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Enhanced radiometric forces
Marco Scandurra
Crookes' Radiometer exploits thermal forces arising from temperature gradients in rarefied gases. This instrument has remained confined to educational physics because of the very s…
Quantum vacuum pressure on a conducting slab
Marco Scandurra
The casimir pressure on a non ideal conducting slab is calculated. Using a simple model for the conductivity according to which the slab is perfectly conducting at frequencies belo…
QFT Limit of the Casimir Force
Marco Scandurra
High precision measurements of the Casimir effect and recent applications to micro electromechanical systems raise the question of how large the Casimir force can be made in an arb…
Calculating Vacuum Energies in Renormalizable Quantum Field Theories: A New Approach to the Casimir Problem
N. Graham, R. L. Jaffe, V. Khemani +3
The Casimir problem is usually posed as the response of a fluctuating quantum field to externally imposed boundary conditions. In reality, however, no interaction is strong enough…
Casimir Energies in Light of Quantum Field Theory
N. Graham, R. L. Jaffe, V. Khemani +3
We study the Casimir problem as the limit of a conventional quantum field theory coupled to a smooth background. The Casimir energy diverges in the limit that the background forces…
Some remarks on black hole temperature and the second law of thermodynamics
M. Scandurra
I present a formulation of the second law of thermodynamics in the presence of black holes which makes use of the efficiency of an ideal machine extracting heat cyclically from a b…