{
  "id": "1112.1551",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2011-12-07T13:01:51.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-12-07T13:01:51.000Z",
  "title": "Casimir effect across a layered medium",
  "authors": [
    "Marin-Slobodan Tomas"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 1 figure, presented at QFEXT11",
  "journal": "Int. J. Mod. Phys. Conf. Ser., 14, 561 (2012)",
  "doi": "10.1142/S2010194512007696",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Using nonstandard recursion relations for Fresnel coefficients involving successive stacks of layers, we extend the Lifshitz formula to configurations with an inhomogeneous, n-layered, medium separating two planar objects. The force on each object is the sum of a Lifshitz like force and a force arising from the inhomogeneity of the medium. The theory correctly reproduces very recently obtained results for the Casimir force/energy in some simple systems of this kind. As a by product, we obtain a formula for the force on an (unspecified) stack of layers between two planar objects which generalizes our previous result for the force on a slab in a planar cavity.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2011-12-07T13:01:51.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "12.20.Ds",
      "42.25.Bs",
      "42.25.Gy"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "casimir effect",
      "layered medium",
      "planar objects",
      "nonstandard recursion relations",
      "lifshitz formula"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "International Journal of Modern Physics Conference Series",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Jul",
      "volume": 14,
      "pages": 561
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2012IJMPS..14..561T"
    }
  }
}