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Numerical Evaluation of the Casimir-Polder Interaction at Finite Temperature
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- 1 Intro
- 2 An atom in front of a surface
- 3 Practical relevance
- 4 The limits of (semi-)analytical calculations
- 5 Numerical approaches to Casimir calculations
- 6 The discontinuous Galerkin time domain method
- 7 An example including dispersion and dissipation
- 8 The semi-analytical reference solution
- 9 Distance dependence of the Casimir-Polder interaction
- 10 The Casimir-Polder interaction energy
- 11 An intuitive interpretation of the Green tensor
- 12 From frequency domain to time domain
- 13 Numerical simulation of the dipole field
- 14 Postprocessing
- 15 Putting it all together
- 16 Reminder: Rubidium atom in front of a gold halfspace
- 17 Numerical simulation vs. reference solution
- 18 Convergence study
- 19 Beyond planar geometries
- 20 Zero-temperature Casimir-Polder force near a wedge
- 21 Summary
