Electromagnetic duality in Lorentz invariance

• Grant number: 96/00702-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: October 01, 1996
• End date: September 30, 1998
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Ivan Medina Bascur
• Grantee: Ricardo Ivan Medina Bascur
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

I have in mind to work in the Casimir Effect. It was predicted in 1948 and consist in the force that exists between two large conducting parallel plates, which is due to pure quantum effects (vacuum fluctuations). It was verified experimentally a decade ... (AU)