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arxiv: quant-ph/0111023 · v1 · submitted 2001-11-04 · 🪐 quant-ph

What is the Temperature Dependence of the Casimir Force between Real Metals?

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The situation with the temperature corrections to the Casimir force between real metals of finite conductivity is reported. It is shown that the plasma dielectric function is well adapted to the Lifshitz formula and leads to reasonable results for real conductors. The Drude dielectric function which describes media with dissipation is found not to belong to the application range of the Lifshitz formula at nonzero temperature. For Drude metals the special modification of the zero-frequency term of this formula is suggested. The contradictory results on the subject in recent literature are analysed and explained.

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