Casimir: attraction between two perfectly conducting plates

What changed

Predicted attractive force for ideal conducting parallel plates from altered modes.

Scientific scope

The record is Casimir’s sole-author 1948 theoretical paper for ideal parallel conductors. It does not absorb experimental confirmation, the Casimir–Polder paper, Lifshitz theory, finite-temperature or material corrections.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Casimir’s sole-author 1948 theoretical paper for ideal parallel conductors. It does not absorb experimental confirmation, the Casimir–Polder paper, Lifshitz theory, finite-temperature or material corrections.

Contributors

• H. B. G. Casimir · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Royal Netherlands Academy scan of Casimir paper
• INSPIRE record for Casimir paper

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