期刊
UNIVERSE
卷 7, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/universe7040084
关键词
Casimir effect; Lifshitz theory; Drude model; plasma model; Nernst heat theorem; precise measurements; surface roughness; proximity force approximation; quantum fluctuations
资金
- Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University in the framework of the Russian state assignment for basic research [FSEG-2020-0024]
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [19-02-00453 A]
- Russian Government Program of Competitive Growth of Kazan Federal University
This paper reviews the complicated problems in Lifshitz theory describing the Casimir force between real material plates made of metals and dielectrics. Experimental data exclude the theoretical Casimir forces calculated within the framework of Lifshitz theory, leading to the proposal of various approaches to resolve this issue.
This paper provides a review of the complicated problems in Lifshitz theory describing the Casimir force between real material plates composed of metals and dielectrics, including different approaches to their resolution. For both metallic plates with perfect crystal lattices and any dielectric plates, we show that the Casimir entropy calculated in the framework of Lifshitz theory violates the Nernst heat theorem when the well-approved dielectric functions are used in computations. The respective theoretical Casimir forces are excluded by the measurement data of numerous precision experiments. In the literature, this situation has been called the Casimir puzzle and the Casimir conundrum for the cases of metallic and dielectric plates, respectively. This review presents a summary of both the main theoretical and experimental findings on this subject. Next, a discussion is provided of the main approaches proposed in the literature to bring the Lifshitz theory into agreement with the measurement data and with the laws of thermodynamics. Special attention is paid to the recently suggested spatially nonlocal Drude-like response functions, which consider the relaxation properties of conduction electrons, as does the standard Drude model, but lead to the theoretical results being in agreement with both thermodynamics and the measurement data through the alternative response to quantum fluctuations of the mass shell. Further advances and trends in this field of research are discussed.
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