@article{Henkel2020, author = {Henkel, Carsten}, title = {Thermally excited quasiparticles in metals, dispersion forces, and the thermal anomaly}, series = {Modern physics letters : A, Particles and fields, gravitation, cosmology, nuclear physics}, volume = {35}, journal = {Modern physics letters : A, Particles and fields, gravitation, cosmology, nuclear physics}, number = {3}, publisher = {World Scientific}, address = {Singapore}, issn = {0217-7323}, doi = {10.1142/S021773232040009X}, pages = {9}, year = {2020}, abstract = {We provide a brief review of the contribution of thermally excited carriers to dispersion forces. In a metal, these carriers generate charge and current fluctuations whose spectral frequencies are comparable to k(B)T/(h) over bar. They are very likely responsible for the "plasma vs. Drude" anomaly.}, language = {en} }