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| Authors | Yury Sherkunov |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0611198 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0611198 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0022-3727/40/1/S13 |
| Journal | J.Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40 (2007) 86-94 |
Abstract
The retarded dispersion interaction (Casimir interaction) between two dilute dielectric media at high temperatures is considered. The excited atoms are taken into account. It is shown that the perturbation technique can not be applied to this problem due to the divergence of integrals. A non-perturbative approach based on kinetic Green functions is implemented. We consider interaction between two atoms (one of them is excited0 embedded in an absorbing dielectric medium. We take into account possible absorption of photons in the medium, which solves the problem of divergence. The force between two plane dilute dielectric media is calculated at pair interaction approximation. We show that the result of quantum electrodynamics differs from the Lifshitz formula for dilute gas media at high temperatures (if the number of excited atoms is significant). According to quantum electrodynamics, the interaction may be either attractive or repulsive depending on the temperature and the density numbers of the media.
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