Advances in the Casimir Effect

by Michael Bordag, Galina Leonidovna Klimchitskaya, Umar Mohideen, et al.

The subject of this book is the Casimir effect, a manifestation of zero-point oscillations of the quantum vacuum resulting in forces acting between closely spaced bodies. For the benefit of the reader, the book assembles field-theoretical foundations of this phenomenon, applications of the general theory to real materials, and a comprehensive description of all recently performed measurements of the Casimir force with a comparison between experiment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019923874X
• ISBN13: 9780199238743
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"