Nonperturbative Access to Casimir-Polder Forces
Abstract
We discuss the scalar analogue of the Casimir-Polder force between a sphere and a uniaxially corrugated surface with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Presenting a formulation that is nonperturbative in the height profile of the surface, we give explicit numerical results for a sinuosoidal corrugation profile.
- Publication:
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Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT09)
- Pub Date:
- April 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789814289931_0038
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0910.5889
- Bibcode:
- 2010qfti.conf..312D
- Keywords:
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- Casimir-Polder;
- corrugated surfaces;
- nonperturbative techniques;
- Quantum Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 1 figure. Talk given by B.D. at the Ninth Conference on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT 09), 21-25 September 2009, Oklahoma, USA