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    "abstract": "We establish a general relation between dispersion forces. First, based on\nQED in causal media, leading-order perturbation theory is used to express both\nthe single-atom Casimir-Polder and the two-atom van der Waals potentials in\nterms of the atomic polarizabilities and the Green tensor for the body-assisted\nelectromagnetic field. Endowed with this geometry-independent framework, we\nthen employ the Born expansion of the Green tensor together with the\nClausius-Mosotti relation to prove that the macroscopic Casimir-Polder\npotential of an atom in the presence of dielectric bodies is due to an infinite\nsum of its microscopic many-atom van der Waals interactions with the atoms\ncomprising the bodies. This theorem holds for inhomogeneous, dispersing, and\nabsorbing bodies of arbitrary shapes and arbitrary atomic composition on an\narbitrary background of additional magnetodielectric bodies.",
    "arxiv_id": "quant-ph/0603193",
    "authors": [
      "Stefan Yoshi Buhmann",
      "Hassan Safari",
      "Dirk-Gunnar Welsch",
      "Ho Trung Dung"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "doi": "10.1007/s11080-006-9024-0",
    "journal_ref": "Open Systems and Information Dynamics 13 (4), 427 (2006)",
    "title": "Microscopic origin of Casimir-Polder forces",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0603193"
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