… for the additional potential energy (or forces) associated with certain of the more important
… We shall call these additional forces “proximity forces” because they arise from the proximity …

… We note the general result that the discontinuity in the proximity force as a gap turns into a …
(7), (8) lead to the conventional Proximity Force Theorem which states that the proximity force …

… of all Casimir force experiments using a sphere-plate geometry requires the use of the
proximity-force … We measured the force and force gradient for five different spheres with radii R …

The proximity force approximation (PFA) has been widely used as a tool to evaluate the
Casimir force between smooth objects at small distances. In spite of being intuitively easy to …

… for the additional potential energy (or forces) associated with certain of the more important
… We shall call these additional forces" proximity forces" because they arise from the proximity …

We have generalized a theorem according to which the force between two gently curved
objects in close proximity is proportional to the interaction potential per unit area between two …

… Casimir force is the lateral component of the Casimir force, … the validity of the proximity-force
approximation. The metallic … the proximity-force approximation overestimates the force by …

… apply the proximity force approximation, which is widely used for the calculation of the Casimir
force … It is shown that for the gravitational force in a sphere-plate configuration the general …

… proximity force approximation” the electrostatic force is evaluated by first dividing each surface
into a set of small flat patches, and then adding up the forces … of the electrostatic force, and …

… -wall force cannot be predicted by ‘‘additive’’ methods based on proximity force or other …
it is difficult to find a simple correction to give a nonmonotonic force. We are able to compute …