Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
The Casimir effect refers to the existence of a macroscopic force between conducting plates in vacuum due to quantum fluctuations of fields. These forces play an important role, among other things, in the design of nano-scale mechanical devices. Accurate experimental observations of this phenomenon have motivated the development of new theoretical approaches in dealing with the effects of different geometries, temperature etc. In this talk, I will focus on a new method we have developed in calculating the contribution to the Casimir effect due to diffraction from edges and holes in different geometries, at zero and at finite temperature.
Comments
This work was originally published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 343, available at DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/343/1/012053.