Abstract
We calculated the stress of the quantum vacuum, the Casimir stress, in a spherically symmetric medium, Maxwell's fish eye, surrounded by a perfect mirror and derived an exact analytic solution. Our solution questions the idea that the Casimir force of a spherical mirror is repulsive-we found an attractive stress in the medium that diverges at the mirror.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 081701 |
| Pages (from-to) | - |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| Publication status | Published - 11 Oct 2011 |