Advances in the Casimir Effect

by Umar Mohideen, Vladimir Mikhaylovich Mostepanenko, Galina Leonidovna Klimchitskaya, 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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198719981
• ISBN13: 9780198719984
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 778 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"