@article{BimonteHaakhHenkeletal.2010,
  author    = {Bimonte, Giuseppe and Haakh, Harald Richard and Henkel, Carsten and Intravaia, Francesco},
  title     = {Optical BCS conductivity at imaginary frequencies and dispersion energies of superconductors},
  issn      = {1751-8113},
  doi       = {10.1088/1751-8113/43/14/145304},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {We present an efficient expression for the analytic continuation to arbitrary complex frequencies of the complex optical and ac conductivity of a homogeneous superconductor with an arbitrary mean free path. Knowledge of this quantity is fundamental in the calculation of thermodynamic potentials and dispersion energies involving type-I superconducting bodies. When considered for imaginary frequencies, our formula evaluates faster than previous schemes involving Kramers-Kronig transforms. A number of applications illustrate its efficiency: a simplified low-frequency expansion of the conductivity, the electromagnetic bulk self-energy due to longitudinal plasma oscillations, and the Casimir free energy of a superconducting cavity.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HaakhIntravaiaHenkel2010,
  author    = {Haakh, Harald Richard and Intravaia, Francesco and Henkel, Carsten},
  title     = {Temperature dependence of the plasmonic Casimir interaction},
  issn      = {1050-2947},
  doi       = {10.1103/Physreva.82.012507},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {We investigate the role of surface plasmons in the electromagnetic Casimir effect at finite temperature, including situations out of global thermal equilibrium. The free energy is calculated analytically and expanded for different regimes of distances and temperatures. Similar to the zero-temperature case, the interaction changes from attraction to repulsion with distance. Thermal effects are shown to be negligible for small plate separations and at room temperature but become dominant and repulsive at large values of these parameters. In configurations out of global thermal equilibrium, we show that the selective excitation of surface plasmons can create a repulsive Casimir force between metal plates.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HenkelIntravaia2010,
  author    = {Henkel, Carsten and Intravaia, Francesco},
  title     = {On the Casimir entropy between "perfect crystals"},
  issn      = {0217-751X},
  doi       = {10.1142/S0217751x10049608},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {We give a re-interpretation of an 'entropy defect' in the electromagnetic Casimir effect. The electron gas in a perfect crystal is an electromagnetically disordered system whose entropy contains a finite Casimir- like contribution. The Nernst theorem (third law of thermodynamics) is not applicable.},
  language  = {en}
}