Bulk contributions to the Casimir interaction of Dirac materials
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10369v1
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:57:17 GMT
- Title: Bulk contributions to the Casimir interaction of Dirac materials
- Authors: M. Bordag, I. Fialkovsky, N. Khusnutdinov, and D. Vassilevich
- Abstract summary: We compute the bulk polarization tensor and bulk dielectric functions for Dirac materials in the presence of a mass gap, chemical potential, and finite temperature.
Using these results, we study the Casimir interaction of Dirac materials.
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- Abstract: Exploiting methods of Quantum Field Theory we compute the bulk polarization
tensor and bulk dielectric functions for Dirac materials in the presence of a
mass gap, chemical potential, and finite temperature. Using these results (and
neglecting eventual boundary effects), we study the Casimir interaction of
Dirac materials. We describe in detail the characteristic features of the
dielectric functions and their influence on the Casimir pressure.
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