Comment on "Anomalous temperature dependence of the Casimir force for thin metal films" [arXiv:0712.1395]
Abstract
Recently V. A. Yampol'skii, S. Savel'ev, Z. A. Mayselis, S. S. Apostolov, and F. Nori [Phys. Rev. Lett., v.101, 096803 (2008),arXiv:0712.1395] claimed that the Casimir force between a thin metal film described by the Drude model and an ideal metal semispace can decrease with temperature whereas for bulk samples the Casimir force increases with temperature. On this basis the experimental observation of the decreasing temperature dependence of the Casimir force magnitude between a film and a bulk ideal metal was proposed. We demonstrate that, contrary to what is claimed by the authors, the magnitude of the Casimir force decreases with temperature in a wide temperature region for bulk samples described by the Drude model. This decrease is shown to be much larger than that for a thin film and it has already been experimentally excluded.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2008
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.0810.3222
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0810.3222
- Bibcode:
- 2008arXiv0810.3222G
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Other;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 2 pages, 1 figure