Phys. Rev. A 73, 047801 (2006) [2 pages]Comment on “Casimir force acting on magnetodielectric bodies embedded in media”Received 13 June 2005; published 18 April 2006 It is shown that the Raabe and Welsch Phys. Rev. A 71 013814 (2005)] criticism of the Dzyaloshinskii-Lifshitz-Pitaevskii theory of the van der Waals–Casimir forces inside a medium is based on misunderstandings. It is explained why and at which conditions one can use the “Minkowski-like” stress tensor for calculations of the forces. The reason why, in my opinion, the approach of Raabe and Welsch is incorrect is discussed. © 2006 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.047801
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.73.047801
PACS:
42.50.Nn, 12.20.−m, 42.50.Vk
See AlsoOriginal Article: Christian Raabe and Dirk-Gunnar Welsch, Casimir force acting on magnetodielectric bodies embedded in media, Phys. Rev. A 71, 013814 (2005). |
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