Influence of slab thickness on the Casimir force

I. Pirozhenko and A. Lambrecht
Phys. Rev. A 77, 013811 – Published 15 January 2008

Abstract

We calculate the Casimir force between slabs of finite thickness made of intrinsic and doped silicon with different concentration of carriers and compare the results to those obtained for gold slabs. We use the Drude and the plasma models to describe the dielectric function for the carriers in doped Si. We discuss the possibility of experimentally testing the appropriateness of these models. We also investigate the influence of finite thickness on VO2, which has recently been proposed for Casimir effect measurements testing the metal-insulator transition.

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  • Received 26 October 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.013811

©2008 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

I. Pirozhenko1,2 and A. Lambrecht2

  • 1Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, CNRS, ENS, UPMC, Campus Jussieu case 74, 75252 Paris, France
  • 2Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Russia

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Vol. 77, Iss. 1 — January 2008

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