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Forces between Conducting Surfaces due to Spatial Variations of Surface Potential
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We describe analytical and numerical methods for calculating forces between conductors due to variations of electrostatic surface potential across their surfaces. In the simple case where the spatial variation of surface potential gives rise to uniform power spectra, we show that the electrostatic force can be large in comparison with, and scale in approximately the same way with distance of closest approach as, the Casimir force. Patch potentials that are consistent with existing experimental data could give rise to forces with a magnitude of 4% of the Casimir force at separations of 0.1 microm.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Speake, C. C., & Trenkel, C.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2003-04-23
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 16
- Pages
- 160403-160403
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W1986471717
- Cited by
- 218
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 3.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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