TY  - JOUR
A1  - Henkel, Carsten
A1  - Joulain, Karl
A1  - Mulet, J. P.
A1  - Greffet, Jean-Jacques
T1  - Coupled surface polaritons and the Casimir force
N2  - The Casimir force between metallic plates made of realistic materials is evaluated for distances in the nanometer range. A spectrum over real frequencies is introduced and shows narrow peaks due to surface resonances (plasmon polaritons or phonon polaritons) that are coupled across the vacuum gap. We demonstrate that the Casimir force originates from the attraction (repulsion) due to the corresponding symmetric (antisymmetric) eigenmodes, respectively. This picture is used to derive a simple analytical estimate of the Casimir force at short distances. We recover the result known for Drude metals without absorption and compute the correction for weakly absorbing materials
Y1  - 2004
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/15173
ER  -