CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS ›› 2015, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (1): 101-106.

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Nonzero-point Casimir Force Between Nano Devices

FANG Ming1, SONG Kaihong1, WANG Juanjuan1, HUANG Zhixiang1, WU Xianliag1,2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing, Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei 230039, China;
    2. Department of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Hefei Normal University, Hefei 230061, China
  • Received:2014-01-15 Revised:2014-06-07 Online:2015-01-25 Published:2015-01-25

Abstract: A frequency domain electromagnetic algorithm boundary element method is applied for computation of Casimir forces between arbitrary materials with arbitrary geometry.Considering electric and magnetic surface current distributions,Casimir force of two objects in terms of interactions of surface currents is obtained.Casimir effects between dielectric objects embedded in dielectric fluid are presented and numerical conditions of repulsive Casimir force are investigated.Non-zeropoint energy Casimir force calculation method is provided.It can be used for design of realistic MEMS.

Key words: Casimir force, electromagnetic algorithm, nonzero-point energy, repulsive Casimir force

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