Casimir–Lifshitz Friction Force and Kinetics of Radiative Heat Transfer between Metal Plates in Relative Motion

Abstract

The Casimir–Lifshitz friction force and the heating rates of two metal plates with a narrow vacuum gap between them during nonrelativistic motion of one of them are calculated within the framework of fluctuation electrodynamics taking into account the temperature change in material properties. It is shown that identical plates with the same initial temperature have the same heating rate, determined by the power of the friction force, and the possibility of measuring the friction force from the heating kinetics of nonmagnetic metal plates with temperatures of 1–10 K is substantiated.