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arxiv: hep-ph/9904394 · v1 · submitted 1999-04-19 · ✦ hep-ph

Casimir-Polder forces in the presence of the cosmic photon heat bath

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keywords casimir-polderdistancesmuchphotonabovebackgroundbathbodies
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We study the effect of a photon background at finite temperature $T$ on the Van der Waals interactions among neutral bodies. It turns out that the long-range Casimir-Polder force is unaffected for distances much less than $T^{-1}$ and strongly enhanced for distances much above $T^{-1}$.

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