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Casimir energy of dielectric systems

Valery N. Marachevsky

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0202057

Abstract

A new formula for the Casimir energy of a dispersive dilute dielectric ball is discussed. The formula for the Casimir energy of a polarizable particle situated in a perfectly conducting wedge-shaped cavity is derived by a path-integral coordinate space method in quantum field theory.

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