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| ====== Casimir Effect ====== | ====== Casimir Effect ====== | ||
| - | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | ||
| - | <tabbox Layman> | ||
| - | * [[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 | ||
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| - | <tabbox Student> | ||
| - | http://www.stat.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~pikovsky/teaching/stud_seminar/ajp_casimirforce.pdf | + | <tabbox Intuitive> |
| - | <note tip> | + | {{ :advanced_notions:quantum_field_theory:casimir1.png?nolink&400|}} |
| - | In this section things should be explained by analogy and with pictures and, if necessary, some formulas. | + | The Casimir effect is an observed attractive force between two uncharged metal plates due to quantum vacuum fluctuations. |
| - | </note> | + | |
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| - | <tabbox Researcher> | + | |
| - | <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. |
| - | The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//. | + | |
| - | </note> | + | |
| - | --> Common Question 1# | + | The Casimir effect is a prediction of [[theories:quantum_field_theory:canonical|Quantum Field Theory]]. |
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| - | --> Common Question 2# | + | * [[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 |
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| - | <tabbox Examples> | + | <tabbox Concrete> |
| - | --> Example1# | + | {{ :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 | ||
| - | --> Example2:# | ||
| - | + | <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); | |
| - | <tabbox History> | + | * 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). | ||
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| + | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | ||
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| + | The Casimir effect is an experimentally verified phenomenon that shows that the vacuum is not really empty, but filled with vacuum fluctuations. | ||
| </tabbox> | </tabbox> | ||
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