Electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations, Casimir and Van der Waals forces

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dc.creatorGenet, Cyriaque
dc.creatorIntravaia, Francesco
dc.creatorLambrecht, Astrid
dc.creatorReynaud, Serge
dc.date2003-02-10
dc.date2004-02-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:06:06Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:06:06Z
dc.descriptionElectromagnetic vacuum fluctuations have observable consequences, like the Casimir force between mirrors in vacuum. This force is now measured with good accuracy and agreement with theory when the effect of imperfect reflection of mirrors is properly taken into account. We discuss the simple case of bulk metallic mirrors described by a plasma model and show that simple scaling laws are obtained at the limits of long and short distances. The crossover between the short and long-distance laws is quite similar to the crossover between Van der Waals and Casimir-Polder forces for two atoms in vacuum. The result obtained at short distances can be understood as the London interaction between plasmon excitations at the surface of each bulk mirror.
dc.description8 pages, 1 figure, final version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0302072
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0302072
dc.identifierAnn. Fond. L. de Broglie 29 (2004) 311-328
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/90863
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleElectromagnetic vacuum fluctuations, Casimir and Van der Waals forces
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