COMPUTATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE CALCULATION OF THE CASIMIR FORCE BETWEEN MULTILAYERED SYSTEMS
2004 ◽
Vol 19
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pp. 4069-4084
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It is shown that, in contrast to the case of two semi-infinite slabs, the Casimir force between two periodic multilayer stacks cannot be computed by means of the typical Lifshitz integration along the imaginary frequency axis because both the integrand and the reflectivity coefficients display multiple poles on such axis. Consequently, all objections to the possibility of radically engineering the magnitude, gap width dependence, and sign of the Casimir force, which were based upon such invalid expressions, are removed. Some experimental and computational implications of these results are discussed.
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High Temperature Material Processes An International Quarterly of High-Technology Plasma Processes
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2007 ◽
Vol 11
(1)
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pp. 149-159
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