Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT09)

Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT09)
Author: Kimball A. Milton
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2010
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814289930

Casimir forces between spheres and loop integrals / J. Babington -- Analytic corrections to the electromagnetic Casimir interaction between a sphere and a plate at short distances / M. Bordag and V. Nikolaev -- Casimir physics : geometry, shape and material / T. Emig -- Semitransparent pistons / P. Morales and K. Kirsten -- Using boundary methods to compute the Casimir energy / F.C. Lombardo, F.D. Mazzitelli and P.I. Villar -- Electromagnetic non-contact gears : prelude / P. Parashar [und weitere] -- The scattering approach to the Casimir force / S. Reynaud [und weitere] -- Scalar Casimir energies for separable coordinate systems : application to semi-transparent planes in an annulus / J. Wagner, K.A. Milton and K. Kirsten -- Demonstrating the strong geometry dependence of the Casimir force on a surface with deep, nanoscale corrugations / H.B. Chan [und weitere] -- New results for the Casimir interaction : sample characterization and low temperature measurements / R.S. Decca, D. Lopez and E. Osquiguil -- Casimir force experiments in air : two birds with one stone / S. De Man [und weitere] -- Experimental features of the recent lateral Casimir force measurement / H.-C. Chiu and U. Mohideen -- Lateral Casimir-Polder force measurement using Bose Einstein condensates / G.A. Moreno -- Repulsive Casimir and van der Waals forces : from measurements to future technologies / J.N. Munday and F. Capasso -- Macroscopic quantum vacuum and microscopic gravitation / R. Onofrio -- The PVLAS experiment and its results : probing the quantum vacuum with polarized light and magnetic fields / F. Della Valle [und weitere] -- Thermal Casimir effect for conducting plates and the Bohr-van Leeuwen theorem / G. Bimonte -- Electromagnetic Casimir effect in wedge geometry and the energy-momentum tensor in media / I. Brevik, S.A. Ellingsen and K.A. Milton -- Casimir-Polder potential in thermal non-equilibrium / S.A. Ellingsen [und weitere] -- Geometry-temperature interplay in the Casimir effect / H. Gies and A. Weber -- Thermal effects in the magnetic Casimir-Polder interaction / H. Haakh, F. Intravaia and C. Henkel -- Mode contributions to the Casimir effect / F. Intravaia and C. Henkel -- Thermal Casimir force between magnetic materials / G.L. Klimchitskaya, B. Geyer and V.M. Mostepanenko -- The Casimir effect and the foundations of statistical physics / V.M. Mostepanenko and G.L. Klimchitskaya -- Casimir-Lifshitz forces and entropy / L.P. Pitaevskii -- The thermal Casimir effect : saturation / B.E. Sernelius -- Finite temperature Casimir effect in the presence of extra dimensions / L.P. Teo and K. Kirsten -- The role of magnetoplasmons in Casimir force calculations / R. Esquivel-Sirvent [und weitere] -- Suspended graphene films and their Casimir interaction with ideal conductor / I.V. Fialkovsky -- Casimir energy of finite width mirrors : renormalization, self-interaction limit and Lifshitz formula / I.V. Fialkovsky, V.N. Markov and Yu. M. Pis'mak -- Role of surface states in the Casimir force between semiconducting films / M. Govoni, C. Calandra and A. Benassi -- On the Casimir entropy between "perfect crystals" / C. Henkel and F. Intravaia -- Theory of the Casimir effect for gratings / V.N. Marachevsky

The Casimir Effect 50 Years Later

The Casimir Effect 50 Years Later
Author: Michael Bordag
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 397
Release: 1999
Genre: Casimir effect
ISBN: 9789810238209

This volume contains papers based on talks delivered at the Fourth Workshop on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions. This series of workshops, held at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Leipzig, was launched in 1989. The present meeting took place 50 years after Hendrik B Casimir discovered the effect named after him. This effect was found by Casimir in investigating the retarded long range van der Waals forces in colloids and re-expressing them as a change in the vacuum energy of the electromagnetic field. The story of why this work was done was told by Casimir himself at the workshop. A historical account of the development of vacuum energy in quantum theory starting from Planck's half quanta was given by H Rechenberg. Another interesting topic was about a possible explanation of sonoluminescence as a dynamical Casimir effect. Kim Milton reported on the work done by Julian Schwinger on this topic during the last years of the great physicist's life, as well as on his own research. M Bordag (Leipzig) provided a general analysis of the ultraviolet divergences of the vacuum energy of a dielectric sphere.