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An optical approximation to the Casimir effect and related topics

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An optical approximation to the Casimir effect and related topics

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Author: Scardicchio, Antonello
Other Contributors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
Advisor: Robert L. Jaffe.
Department: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date Issued: 2006
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.
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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
Keywords: Physics.

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