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    "abstract": "We discuss some implications of a very recently obtained result for the force\non a slab in a planar cavity based on the calculation of the vacuum Lorentz\nforce [C. Raabe and D.-G. Welsch, Phys. Rev. A 71, 013814 (2005)]. We\ndemonstrate that, according to this formula, the total force on the slab\nconsists of a medium-screened Casimir force and, in addition to it, a\nmedium-assisted force. The sign of of the medium-assisted force is determined\nsolely by the properties of the cavity mirrors. In the Lifshitz configuration,\nthis force is proportional to 1/d at small distances and is very small compared\nwith the corresponding van der Waals force. At large distances, however, it is\nproportional to 1/d^4 and is comparable with the Casimir force, especially for\ndenser media. The exponents in these power laws decrease by 1 in the case of a\nthin slab. The formula for the medium-assisted force also describes the force\non a layer of the cavity medium, which has similar properties. For dilute\nmedia, it implies an atom-mirror interaction of the Coulomb type at small and\nof the Casimir-Polder type at large atom-mirror distances. For a perfectly\nreflecting mirror, the latter force is effectively only three-times smaller\nthan the Casimir-Polder force.",
    "arxiv_id": "quant-ph/0502145",
    "authors": [
      "M. S. Tomas"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "journal_ref": "Fizika A 14, 29 (2005)",
    "title": "Medium-assisted vacuum force",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0502145"
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