Radiation pressure from the vacuum: Physical interpretation of the Casimir force
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 38 (3) , 1621-1623
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.38.1621
Abstract
We calculate the vacuum-field radiation pressure on two parallel, perfectly conducting plates. The modes outside the plates push the plates together, those confined between the plates push them apart, and the net effect is the well-known Casimir force. Implications of this result for the form of the Poynting vector in quantum electrodynamics are discussed.Keywords
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