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 ====== Casimir Effect ====== ====== Casimir Effect ======
  
-<tabbox Why is it interesting?> ​ 
  
-<tabbox Layman> ​ 
  
-<note tip> +<​tabbox ​Intuitive
-Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party. +
-</​note>​ +
-   +
-<​tabbox ​Student+
  
-http://​www.stat.physik.uni-potsdam.de/​~pikovsky/​teaching/​stud_seminar/​ajp_casimirforce.pdf+{{ :advanced_notions:​quantum_field_theory:​casimir1.png?​nolink&​400|}} 
 +The Casimir effect is an observed attractive force between two uncharged metal plates due to quantum vacuum fluctuations.
  
-<note tip> +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.
-In this section things should ​be explained by analogy ​and with pictures and, if necessary, some formulas. +
-</​note>​ +
-  +
-<tabbox Researcher> ​+
  
-<note tip> +The Casimir effect ​is a prediction ​of [[theories:​quantum_field_theory:​canonical|Quantum Field Theory]]
-The motto in this section ​is: //the higher the level of abstraction,​ the better//. +
-</​note>​+
  
---> Common Question 1#+----
  
-  +  * [[https://​gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/​2009/​10/​09/​being-pushed-around-by-empty-space-the-casimir-effect/​|Being pushed around by empty space: The Casimir Effect]] by Brian Skinner 
-<--+   
 +<tabbox Concrete> ​
  
---> Common Question 2#+{{ :​advanced_notions:​quantum_field_theory:​casimir2.png?​nolink&​400 |}}
  
-  +  * 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 
-  ​ +  ​* https://​physics.stackexchange.com/​questions/​26877/​regularization-of-the-casimir-effect
-<tabbox Examples> ​+
  
---> Example1# 
  
-  +<tabbox Abstract>​  
-<--+  * The Casimir Effect and the Quantum Vacuum by R. L. Jaffe  
 +  * K. A. Milton, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 161, 012001 (2009); The Casimir Effect: Physical Manifestations of Zero Point Energy (World Scientific, Singapore, 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).
  
---> Example2:# 
  
-  +<tabbox Why is it interesting?> ​ 
-<-- + 
-   +The Casimir effect is an experimentally verified phenomenon that shows that the vacuum is not really empty, but filled with vacuum fluctuations.
-<tabbox History> ​+
  
 </​tabbox>​ </​tabbox>​
  
  
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