Editors:
- Comprehensively summarizes both the development and state-of-the-art of Casimir and Casimir-Polder interactions and physics.
- Uses a tutorial approach to facilitate self-study for non-specialists and graduate students.
- Is authored and edited by leading researchers in the field.
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 834)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Casimir effects serve as primary examples of directly observable manifestations of the nontrivial properties of quantum fields, and as such are attracting increasing interest from quantum field theorists, particle physicists, and cosmologists. Furthermore, though very weak except at short distances, Casimir forces are universal in the sense that all material objects are subject to them. They are thus also an increasingly important part of the physics of atom-surface interactions, while in nanotechnology they are being investigated not only as contributors to ‘stiction’ but also as potential mechanisms for actuating micro-electromechanical devices.
While the field of Casimir physics is expanding rapidly, it has reached a level of maturity in some important respects: on the experimental side, where most sources of imprecision in force measurements have been identified as well as on the theoretical side, where, for example, semi-analytical and numerical methods for the computation of Casimir forces between bodies of arbitrary shape have been successfully developed. This book is, then, a timely and comprehensive guide to the essence of Casimir (and Casimir-Polder) physics that will have lasting value, serving the dual purpose of an introduction and reference to the field. While this volume is not intended to be a unified textbook, but rather a collection of largely independent chapters written by prominent experts in the field, the detailed and carefully written articles adopt a style that should appeal to non-specialist researchers in the field as well as to a broader audience of graduate students.
Editors and Affiliations
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Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
Diego Dalvit, David Roberts
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, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
Peter Milonni, Felipe da Rosa
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Casimir Physics
Editors: Diego Dalvit, Peter Milonni, David Roberts, Felipe da Rosa
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20288-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-20287-2Published: 30 June 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-20288-9Published: 28 June 2011
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 457
Number of Illustrations: 97 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quantum Physics, Quantum Optics, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films