Long-Range Casimir Forces
Subtitle: Theory and Recent Experiments on Atomic Systems
By: edited by Frank S. Levin, David A. Micha
Contributors: Micha, David A.
Series: Finite Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics; Finite Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics
Publisher: Springer US; Imprint: Springer
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781489912282
Subjects: Solid State Physics; Condensed Matter Physics; Spectroscopy and Microscopy; Crystallography; Physics; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
Description: Written for the nonspecialist, this book reviews current experimental and theoretical research on long-range forces of the Casimir-Polder type as related to atomic traps and their stability, atomic clocks, and binding forces between surfaces. Researchers and graduate students in solid-state, molecular, nuclear, and chemical physics will be introduced to the broad picture as well as many particulars of the field.