Friday, August 10, 2012

1208.1757 (M. Bordag et al.)

Comment on "Casimir Force and In Situ Surface Potential Measurements on
Nanomembranes"
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M. Bordag, G. L. Klimchitskaya, V. M. Mostepanenko
Recently D. Garcia-Sanches, K. Y. Fong, H. Bhaskaran, S. Lamoreaux, and H. X. Tang [Phys. Rev. Lett. v.109, 027202 (2012)] claimed that the frequency shift of an oscillator under the influence of the residual electric and Casimir forces is best described by the Drude model approach to the Casimir force and excludes the plasma model approach. We demonstrate that calculations in support of this claim are performed incorrectly and that the measured data are in strong disagreement with both theoretical approaches to the Casimir force, thus, suggesting the presence of an unaccounted systematic error in the data.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1757

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