CaPS: Casimir Effect in the Plane-Sphere Geometry

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CaPS is a package for the analysis of the Casimir effect in the plane-sphere geometry.The Casimir force arises due to quantum and thermal fluctuations of the electromagnetic field and is closely related to the van der Waals force (Bordag, Klimchitskaya, Mohideen, & Mostepanenko, 2009).It is the dominant force between neutral non-magnetic materials in the nanometer to micrometer range and plays an important role in colloidal systems.Of technological relevance are applications to micro-and nano-electromechanical systems where the Casimir force can lead to stiction and thus constitute a failure mechanism (Buks & Roukes, 2001;Chan, Aksyuk, Kleiman, Bishop, & Capasso, 2001).On a more fundamental level, the Casimir effect is linked to the zero-point energy and the cosmological constant problem (Martin, 2012).A precise knowledge of the Casimir force is crucial for the search for possible deviations from Newton's law of gravitation that could arise from a fifth fundamental interaction (Antoniadis et al., 2011).

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