Advances in the Casimir Effect

• Equal emphasis on experiment and theory
• Critical analysis of current debates
• Summary of information from hundreds of recently published journal papers.
• Comprehensively referenced

Readership: Primarily physicists, also chemists, biologists and nanotechnologists working on different manifestations of vacuum oscillations. Also advanced undergraduate, and post-graduate physics students.

Michael Bordag, Center of Theoretical Studies and Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leipzig University, Germany, Galina Leonidovna Klimchitskaya, Department of Physics, North-West Technical University, St.Petersburg, Russia and Center of Theoretical Studies and Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leipzig University, Germany, Umar Mohideen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, USA, and Vladimir Mikhaylovich Mostepanenko, Noncommercial Partnership "Scientific Instruments", Moscow, Russia and Center of Theoretical Studies and Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leipzig University, Germany

"This is the first modern, comprehensive book on the Casimir effect, a very timely subject of growing importance and general appeal in physics. Although the Casimir effect has been an intriguing subject on its own right for more than half a century, it is experiencing a renaissance at the moment, because only fairly recently first precise measurements of the Casimir force have been made and because the Casimir effect is becoming important in nanotechnology. " - Ulf Leonhardt, University of St Andrews

1: Introduction
I: PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CASIMIR EFFECT FOR IDEAL BOUNDARIES
2: Simple Models of the Casimir effect
3: Field quantization and vacuum energy in the presence of boundaries
4: Regularization and renormalization of the vacuum energy
5: The Casimir effect at nonzero temperature
6: Approximate and numerical approaches to the Casimir effect
7: The Casimir effect for two ideal metal planes
8: The Casimir effect in rectangular boxes
9: Single spherical and cylindrical boundaries
10: The Casimir force between objects of arbitrary shape
11: Spaces with non-Euclidean topology
II: THE CASIMIR FORCE BETWEEN REAL BODIES
12: The Lifshitz theory of van der Waals and Casimir forces between plane dielectrics
13: The Casimir interaction between plates made of real metals at zero temperature
14: The Casimir interaction between real metals at nonzero temperature
15: The Casimir interaction between metal and dielectric
16: The Lifshitz theory of atom-wall interaction
17: The Casimir force between rough and corrugated surfaces
III: MEASUREMENTS OF THE CASIMIR FORCE AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN BOTH FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
18: General requirements for Casimir force measurements
19: Measurements of the Casimir force between equals
20: Measurements of the Casimir force with semiconductors
21: Measurements of the Casimir force in configurations with corrugated surfaces
22: Measurement of the Casimir-Polder force
23: Applications of the Casimir force in nanotechnology
24: Constraints on hypothetical interactions from the Casimir effect
25: Conclusions and outlook