title: Casimir Interaction between a plate and a cylinder.
abstract: We find the exact Casimir force between a plate and a cylinder, a geometry intermediate between parallel plates, where the force is known exactly, and the plate sphere, where it is known at large separations. The force has an unexpectedly weak decay approximately L/[H3 ln(H/R)] at large plate-cylinder separations H (L and R are the cylinder length and radius), due to transverse magnetic modes. Path integral quantization with a partial wave expansion additionally gives a qualitative difference for the density of states of electric and magnetic modes, and corrections at finite temperatures.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Strasse 77, 50937 Köln, Germany.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Emig
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Jaffe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kardar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scardicchio