An optical approximation to the Casimir effect and related topics

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2006. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-188). === 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 t...

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Main Author: Scardicchio, Antonello
Other Authors: Robert L. Jaffe.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2008
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Online Access:http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/36811
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