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| - | The Casimir effect is an observed attractive force between two uncharged metal plates dues to quantum vacuum fluctuations. | + | The Casimir effect is an observed attractive force between two uncharged metal plates due to quantum vacuum fluctuations. |
| The quantum vacuum fluctuations can be interpreted as [[advanced_notions:quantum_field_theory:virtual_particles|virtual particles]] that permanently pop in and out of existence in the vacuum. | The quantum vacuum fluctuations can be interpreted as [[advanced_notions:quantum_field_theory:virtual_particles|virtual particles]] that permanently pop in and out of existence in the vacuum. | ||
| - | The Casimir effect is a prediction of [[theories:quantum_field_theory|Quantum Field Theory]]. | + | The Casimir effect is a prediction of [[theories:quantum_field_theory:canonical|Quantum Field Theory]]. |
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| * For a nice description see chapter 19 in Sleeping Beauties in Theoretical Physics by Thanu Padmanabhan | * For a nice description see chapter 19 in Sleeping Beauties in Theoretical Physics by Thanu Padmanabhan | ||
| * http://www.stat.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~pikovsky/teaching/stud_seminar/ajp_casimirforce.pdf | * http://www.stat.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~pikovsky/teaching/stud_seminar/ajp_casimirforce.pdf | ||
| + | * https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26877/regularization-of-the-casimir-effect | ||
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| * M. Bordag, U. Mohideen, and V. M. Mostepanenko, Phys. Rep. 353, 1 (2001); | * M. Bordag, U. Mohideen, and V. M. Mostepanenko, Phys. Rep. 353, 1 (2001); | ||
| * M. Bordag, G. L. Klimchitskaya, U. Mohideen, and V. M. Mostepanenko, Advances in the Casimir Effect, International Series of Monographs on Physics (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009). | * M. Bordag, G. L. Klimchitskaya, U. Mohideen, and V. M. Mostepanenko, Advances in the Casimir Effect, International Series of Monographs on Physics (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009). | ||
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| <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | ||
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