Walton, Timothy and Goto, Shinichiro and Tucker, Robin (2011) Quantum electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations in inhomogeneous dielectric media. In: Photon counting applications, quantum optics, and quantum information transfer and processing III : proceedings of the SPIE. SPIE.
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A new mathematical and computational technique for calculating quantum vacuum expectation values of energy and momentum densities associated with electromagnetic fields in bounded domains containing inhomogeneous media is discussed. This technique is illustrated by calculating the mode contributions to the difference in the vacuum force expectation between opposite ends of an inhomogeneous dielectric non-dispersive medium confined to a perfectly conducting rigid box.