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View SchemaComment on ''Surface-impedance approach solves problems with the thermal Casimir force between real metals''
| Authors | V. B. Svetovoy |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0306174 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0306174 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.016101 |
Abstract
In a recent paper, Geyer, Klimchitskaya, and Mostepanenko [Phys. Rev. A 67, 062102 (2003); quant-ph/0306038] proposed the final solution of the problem of temperature correction to the Casimir force between real metals. The basic idea was that one cannot use the dielectric permittivity in the frequency region where a real current may arise leading to Joule heating of the metal. Instead, the surface impedance approach is proposed as a solution of all contradictions. The purpose of this comment is to show that (i) the main idea contradicts to the fluctuation dissipation theorem, (ii) the proposed method to calculate the force gives wrong value of the temperature correction since the contribution of low frequency fluctuations is calculated with the impedance which is not applicable at low frequencies. In the impedance approach the right result for the reflection coefficients in the n=0 term of the Lifshitz formula is given.
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"abstract": "In a recent paper, Geyer, Klimchitskaya, and Mostepanenko [Phys. Rev. A 67,\n062102 (2003); quant-ph/0306038] proposed the final solution of the problem of\ntemperature correction to the Casimir force between real metals. The basic idea\nwas that one cannot use the dielectric permittivity in the frequency region\nwhere a real current may arise leading to Joule heating of the metal. Instead,\nthe surface impedance approach is proposed as a solution of all contradictions.\nThe purpose of this comment is to show that (i) the main idea contradicts to\nthe fluctuation dissipation theorem, (ii) the proposed method to calculate the\nforce gives wrong value of the temperature correction since the contribution of\nlow frequency fluctuations is calculated with the impedance which is not\napplicable at low frequencies. In the impedance approach the right result for\nthe reflection coefficients in the n=0 term of the Lifshitz formula is given.",
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.70.016101",
"title": "Comment on \u0027\u0027Surface-impedance approach solves problems with the thermal Casimir force between real metals\u0027\u0027",
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