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View SchemaMeasurement of the Casimir force between dissimilar metals
| Authors | R. S. Decca, D. López, E. Fischbach, D. E. Krause |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0306136 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0306136 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.050402 |
Abstract
The first precise measurement of the Casimir force between dissimilar metals is reported. The attractive force, between a Cu layer evaporated on a microelectromechanical torsional oscillator, and an Au layer deposited on an Al$_2$O$_3$ sphere, was measured dynamically with a noise level of 6 fN/$\sqrt{\rm{Hz}}$. Measurements were performed for separations in the 0.2-2 $\mu$m range. The results agree to better than 1% in the 0.2-0.5 $\mu$m range with a theoretical model that takes into account the finite conductivity and roughness of the two metals. The observed discrepancies, which are much larger than the experimental precision, can be attributed to a lack of a complete characterization of the optical properties of the specific samples used in the experiment.
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