O(α) Radiative Correction to the Casimir Energy for Penetrable Mirrors

M. Bordag and K. Scharnhorst
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3815 – Published 2 November 1998
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Abstract

The leading radiative correction to the Casimir energy for two parallel penetrable mirrors (realized by δ-function potentials) is calculated within QED perturbation theory. It is found to be of order α like the known radiative correction for ideally reflecting mirrors from which it differs, for a mirror distance much larger than the electron Compton wavelength, only by a monotonic, powerlike function of the frequency at which the mirrors become transparent. This shows that the O(α2) radiative correction calculated recently by Kong and Ravndal for ideally reflecting mirrors on the basis of effective field theory methods remains subleading even for the physical case of penetrable mirrors.

  • Received 17 July 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3815

©1998 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

M. Bordag*

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10, D-04109 Leipzig, Federal Republic of Germany

K. Scharnhorst

  • Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 110, D-10115 Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany

  • *Email address: Michael.Bordag@itp.uni-leipzig.de
  • Email address: scharnh@physik.hu-berlin.de

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Vol. 81, Iss. 18 — 2 November 1998

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