Title :
Calculation of Casimir force using FDTD method
Author :
Wang Wang ; ZhiXiang Huang ; Bo Wu ; Jing Shen ; Ming Ding ; Xianliang Wu
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. of Intell. Comput. & Signal Process., Anhui Univ., Hefei, China
Abstract :
Casimir effect is the vacuum attractive force between two neutral conducting plates. Physicists have developed some methods to calculate the Casimir effect. We will use Maxwell´s stress tensor to calculate the force with statistical thermodynamics, mode functions and Green functions. With the FDTD method, we can accurately calculate the Casimir force arises from the configuration of arbitrary geometry and any medium. To illustrate this method we will demonstrate the calculation of the Casimir force in a simple 2-dimension piston-like configuration and observe changes in the force due to changes of the configuration.
Keywords :
Casimir effect; Green´s function methods; Maxwell equations; finite difference time-domain analysis; statistical mechanics; 2-dimension piston-like configuration; Casimir force; FDTD method; Green functions; Maxwell stress tensor; arbitrary geometry; mode functions; statistical thermodynamics; vacuum attractive force; Casimir effect; FDTD; Maxwell´s stress tensor;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenzhen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2184-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICMMT.2012.6229922
