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Casimir effect for periodic systems separated by a vacuum gap

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We describe the general method for calculating the Casimir energy of two diffraction gratings periodic in one spatial direction and separated by a vacuum gap. We express the Casimir energy in terms of the Rayleigh coefficients.

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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 176, No. 1, pp. 117–126, July, 2013.

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Marachevsky, V.N. Casimir effect for periodic systems separated by a vacuum gap. Theor Math Phys 176, 929–936 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-013-0081-6

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