{
  "id": "1505.04169",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-05-15T19:19:55.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-05-15T19:19:55.000Z",
  "title": "The Casimir effect for a stack of conductive planes",
  "authors": [
    "Nail Khusnutdinov",
    "Rashid Kashapov",
    "Lilia M. Woods"
  ],
  "comment": "9 pages, 4 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "The Casimir interaction in a stack of equally spaced infinitely thin layers is investigated within the zero-frequency mode summation method. The response properties are considered to be described by a constant conductivity or by a Drude-Lorentz model with a finite set of oscillators consistent with the optical characteristics for graphite. It is found that the asymptotic distance dependence is affected significantly by the specific response. While the energy is $\\sim 1/d^3$ for the constant conductivity model, the energy exhibits fractional dependence $\\sim 1/d^{5/2}$ for the Drude-Lorentz description. The Casimir force on a plane is also strongly dependent upon the particular plane location in the stack. Furthermore, the calculated Casimir energy within the Drude-Lorentz model yields results in good agreement with measured cohesion energy in graphite.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-05-15T19:19:55.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03.70.+k",
      "03.50.De"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "casimir effect",
      "conductive planes",
      "spaced infinitely thin layers",
      "zero-frequency mode summation method",
      "drude-lorentz model yields results"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.92.045002"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 9,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1370472
    }
  }
}