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Source Theory Treatment of the Casimir Effect: A Review
Author(s) -
Deraad Lester L.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
fortschritte der physik/progress of physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.469
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1521-3978
pISSN - 0015-8208
DOI - 10.1002/prop.2190330203
Subject(s) - casimir effect , spheres , physics , planar , inverse , photon , inverse square law , spin (aerodynamics) , point (geometry) , point source , zero (linguistics) , power (physics) , classical mechanics , quantum electrodynamics , quantum mechanics , mathematics , geometry , gravitation , computer science , thermodynamics , linguistics , philosophy , computer graphics (images) , astronomy
The general method to calculate Casimir forces using Source Theory is reviewed. Included are such issues as point splitting, high frequency cut‐offs and the inclusion of temperature. The details of calculations for planar, spherical and cylindrical geometries are presented. Finally, assuming spin zero photons, the Casimir force between perfectly conducting spheres is calculated. The large distance behavior is found to be proportional to the inverse distance to the fourth power, unlike the spin one behavior of to the eighth power.