Electromagnetic interactions in a cluster of cylinders

Jinying Xu; Xiangdong Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2011.02.061

Electromagnetic interactions in a cluster of cylinders

Jinying Xu, Xiangdong Zhang^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Beijing Normal University

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Abstract

We present a rigorous multiple-scattering method to calculate the interaction energies due to electromagnetic field fluctuations in a cluster of parallel cylinders. Various kinds of cluster structure with both isotropic and anisotropic materials are considered. It is shown that Casimir interactions are sensitive to the positions of the cylinders in the cluster or the structure of the system. The sign of the interaction energy cannot only be changed by tuning the parameters of anisotropic materials, it can also be caused by changing the cylinders configuration of the system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1524-1527
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume	375
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2011.02.061
Publication status	Published - 28 Mar 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Casimir effect
Cluster of cylinders
Electromagnetic interaction
Multiple-scattering method

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