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

Volume

1

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2184-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2012.6229922

Filename

6229922