title: Interplay of curvature and temperature in the Casimir-Polder interaction.
abstract: We study the Casimir-Polder interaction at finite temperatures between a polarizable small, anisotropic particle and a non-planar surface using a derivative expansion. We obtain the leading and the next-to-leading curvature corrections to the interaction for low and high temperatures. Explicit results are provided for the retarded limit in the presence of a perfectly conducting surface.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy. INFN Sezione di Napoli, I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bimonte
authors.forename: Thorsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Emig