An optical approximation to the Casimir effect and related topics
Citable URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36811
| Title: | An optical approximation to the Casimir effect and related topics |
| Author: | Scardicchio, Antonello |
| Advisor: | Robert L. Jaffe. |
| Department: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. |
| Abstract: | In this thesis, I have studied the dependence of the Casimir force between neutral conductors on their shapes. After reducing the problem to that of finding the density of states of' an appropriate hamiltonian I studied it by using semiclassical methods. Some exemplary geometries of interest for the experiments are studied in detail. |
| Description: |
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-188). |
| URI: |
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/36811
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36811 |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Keywords: | Physics. |
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