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    "abstract": "Within leading-order perturbation theory, the Casimir-Polder potential of a\nground-state atom placed within an arbitrary arrangement of dispersing and\nabsorbing linear bodies can be expressed in terms of the polarizability of the\natom and the scattering Green tensor of the body-assisted electromagnetic\nfield. Based on a Born series of the Green tensor, a systematic expansion of\nthe Casimir-Polder potential in powers of the susceptibilities of the bodies is\npresented. The Born expansion is used to show how and under which conditions\nthe Casimir-Polder force can be related to microscopic many-atom van der Waals\nforces, for which general expressions are presented. As an application, the\nCasimir-Polder potentials of an atom near a dielectric ring and an\ninhomogeneous dielectric half space are studied and explicit expressions are\npresented that are valid up to second order in the susceptibility.",
    "arxiv_id": "quant-ph/0507278",
    "authors": [
      "Stefan Yoshi Buhmann",
      "Dirk-Gunnar Welsch"
    ],
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      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "doi": "10.1007/s00340-005-2055-3",
    "journal_ref": "Applied Physics B 82 (2), 189 (2006)",
    "title": "Born expansion of the Casimir-Polder interaction of a ground-state atom   with dielectric bodies",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0507278"
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