Lifshitz theory of van der Waals pressure in dissipative media
Abstract
We derive a first-principles method of determining the van der Waals or Casimir pressure in a dissipative and dispersive planar multilayered system by calculating the Maxwell stress tensor in a fictitious layer of vacuum, that is eventually made to vanish, introduced in the structure. This is illustrated by calculating the van der Waals pressure in a thin film with dissipative properties embedded between two semi-infinite media.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- April 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.042504
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1011.5433
- Bibcode:
- 2011PhRvA..83d2504Z
- Keywords:
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- 31.30.jh;
- 03.50.De;
- 12.20.-m;
- 42.50.Ct;
- QED corrections to long-range and weak interactions;
- Classical electromagnetism Maxwell equations;
- Quantum electrodynamics;
- Quantum description of interaction of light and matter;
- related experiments;
- Quantum Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 2 figures