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CASIMIR AND VAN DER WAALS FORCES: ADVANCES AND PROBLEMS

CASIMIR AND VAN DER WAALS FORCES: ADVANCES AND PROBLEMS

We review modern achievements and problems in physics of the van der Waals and Casimir forces which arise due to zero-point and thermal fluctuations of the electromagnetic field between closely spaced material surfaces. This subject attracted great experimental and theoretical attention during the last few years because the fluctuation-induced forces …