James Babington, Stefan Scheel
Published 2009-09-17, updated 2010-05-06Version 2
We calculate the Casimir force on an isolated dielectric sphere in an ensemble of $N$ spheres due to multiple mutual interactions of the collection of spheres. In particular we consider dielectric spheres immersed in some other background dielectric. As an example, the Casimir force between two and three spheres at zero and finite temperature is evaluated. For a very large number of spheres, we consider a large-$N$ scaling limit of the Casimir force.
Comments: 19 pages, 5 figures; references added, typos fixed, text clarified in places, last section rewritten.
Journal: J. Phys. A 43, 215402 (2010).
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