Robert Bennett, Claudia Eberlein
Quantum electrodynamics near a boundary is investigated by considering the inertial mass shift of an electron near a dielectric or conducting surface. We show that in all tractable cases the shift can be written as a Lifshitz-style formula in terms of integrals over the TE and TM reflection coefficients associated with the surface. We discuss the applications and potential limitations of this formula, and provide exact results for several models of the surface.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5457
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