List of publications
of Dr. Simen Ådnøy Ellingsen




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PHYSICS PUBLICATIONS  
Recent Preprints  
K. A. Milton, I. Brevik, S. Å. Ellingsen “Thermal Issues in Casimir Forces Between Conductors and Semiconductors”
[Contribution to proceedings of Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics, Prague, July 2011]
ArXiv: hep-th/1205.4903
S. Å. Ellingsen, I. Brevik “Static and dynamic response of a fluid-fluid interface to electric point and line charge”
ArXiv: cond-mat.soft/1107.0217
2012  
K. A. Milton, E. K. Abalo, P. Parashar, N. Pourtolami, I. Brevik, S. Å. Ellingsen “Repulsive Casimir and Casimir-Polder Forces”
Journal of Physics A (accepted, in press)
[Contribution to a special issue of J. Phys. A in honour of Stuart Dowker]
ArXiv: hep-th/1202.6415
K. A. Milton, E. K. Abalo, P. Parashar, N. Pourtolami, I. Brevik, S. Å. Ellingsen “Repulsive Casimir effects”
International Journal of Modern Physics A (accepted, in press)
[Proceedings of QFEXT11, Benasque, Spain 2011]
ArXiv: hep-th/1111.5367
S. Å. Ellingsen, I. Brevik “Electrostrictive counter-force on fluid microdroplet in short laser pulse”
Optics Letters 37 1928 (2012)
ArXiv: physics.optics/1203.5007
S. Y. Buhmann, S. Scheel, S. Å. Ellingsen, K. Hornberger, A. Jacob “Casimir-Polder interaction of fullerene molecules with surfaces”
Physical Review A 85 042513 (2012)
ArXiv: quant-ph/1202.1982
V. D. Narasimhamurthy, S. Å. Ellingsen, H. I. Andersson “Bilateral shear layer between two parallel Couette flows”
Physical Review E 85 036302 (2012)
ArXiv: physics.flu-dyn/1202.5842
S. Å. Ellingsen “Microdroplet oscillations during optical pulling”
Physics of Fluids 24 022002 (2012)
ArXiv: physics.flu-dyn/1111.0215

Selected for Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology vol. 25 issue 11 (2012).
S. Å. Ellingsen, S. Y. Buhmann, S. Scheel “Casimir-Polder energy level shifts of an out-of-equilibrium particle near a microsphere”
Physical Review A 85 022503 (2012)
ArXiv: quant-ph/1107.2290
2011  
S. Å. Ellingsen, S. Y. Buhmann, S. Scheel “Temperature-independent Casimir-Polder forces in arbitrary geometries”
Physical Review A (Rapid Communication) 84 060501(R) (2011)
ArXiv: quant-ph/1106.5015
S. Å. Ellingsen, I. Brevik “Electrostrictive fluid pressure from a laser beam”
Physics of Fluids 23 096101 (2011)
ArXiv: physics.flu-dyn/1108.4510
K. A. Milton, J. Wagner, P. Parashar, I. Cavero-Peláez, I. Brevik, S. Å. Ellingsen “Multiple Scattering: Dispersion, Temperature Dependence, and Annular Pistons”
in Odintsov, Sáez-Gómez and Xambo-Descamps (eds.) Cosmology, Quantum Vacuum and Zeta Functions: in Honor of Emilio Elizalde vol. 137 of Springer Proceedings in Physics (Springer, Berlin, 2011) pp. 99-113
ArXiv: hep-th/1007.3462
K. A. Milton, E. K. Abalo, P. Parashar, N. Pourtolami, I. Brevik, S. Å. Ellingsen “Casimir-Polder repulsion near edges: wedge apex and a screen with an aperture”
Physical Review A 83 062507 (2011)
ArXiv: hep-th/1103.4386
I. Brevik, S. Å. Ellingsen “Electromagnetic Momentum Conservation in Media”
Annals of Physics 326 754 (2011)
ArXiv: physics.optics/1007.4403

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2010  
S. Å. Ellingsen, S. Y. Buhmann, S. Scheel “Casimir-Polder potential and transition rate in resonating cylindrical cavities”
Physical Review A 82 032516 (2010)
ArXiv: quant-ph/1007.1065
F. Intravaia, S. Å. Ellingsen, C. Henkel “Casimir-Foucault interaction: Free energy and entropy at low temperature”
Physical Review A 82 032504 (2010)
ArXiv: quant-ph/1005.1630
J. A. Crosse, S. Å. Ellingsen, K. Clements,
S. Y. Buhmann, S. Scheel		 “Thermal Casimir-Polder shifts in Rydberg atoms near metallic surfaces”
Physical Review A (Rapid Communication) 82 010901(R) (2010)
ArXiv: quant-ph/1005.2485
See also: Erratum.
I. Brevik, S. Å. Ellingsen “Possibility of Measuring the Abraham Force using Whispering Gallery Modes”
Physical Review A 81 063830 (2010)
ArXiv: physics.optics/1003.4938
S. Å. Ellingsen, K. S. Gjerden, M. Grøva, A. Hansen “Model for density waves in gravity-driven granular flow in narrow pipes ”
Physical Review E 81 061302 (2010)
ArXiv: cond-mat.soft/1001.0669
S. Å. Ellingsen, S. Buhmann, S. Scheel “Temperature-independent Casimir-Polder forces despite large thermal photon numbers”
Physical Review Letters 104 223003 (2010)
ArXiv: quant-ph/1003.1261
S. Å. Ellingsen, Y. Sherkunov, S. Y. Buhmann, S. Scheel “Casimir-Polder Potential in Thermal Non-Equilibrium”
in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT09) edited by K. A. Milton and M. Bordag (World Scientific, New Jersey, 2010) pp. 168-177
ArXiv: quant-ph/0910.5608
I. Brevik, S. Å. Ellingsen, K. A. Milton “Electromagnetic Casimir Effect in Wedge Geometry and the Energy-Momentum Tensor in Media”
International Journal of Modern Physics A 25 2270 (2010);
and
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT09) edited by K. A. Milton and M. Bordag (World Scientific, New Jersey, 2010) pp. 158-167
ArXiv: hep-th/0911.2688
S. Å. Ellingsen, I. Brevik, K. A. Milton “Casimir effect at nonzero temperature for wedges and cylinders”
Physical Review D 81 065031 (2010)
ArXiv: hep-th/1001.2630
I. Brevik, S. Å. Ellingsen “Transverse radiation force in a tailored optical fiber”
Physical Review A (Rapid Communication) 81 011806(R) (2010)
ArXiv: physics.optics/0912.2247
2009  
S. Å. Ellingsen, I. Brevik, K. A. Milton “Electromagnetic Casimir Effect in a Medium-Filled Wedge II ”
Physical Review E 80 021125 (2009)
ArXiv: hep-th/0905.2088
S. Å. Ellingsen, S. Y. Buhmann, S. Scheel “Enhancement of thermal Casimir-Polder potentials of ground-state polar molecules in a planar cavity ”
Physical Review A 80 022901 (2009)
ArXiv: quant-ph/0906.2272
S. Å. Ellingsen, S. Y. Buhmann, S. Scheel “Dynamics of thermal Casimir-Polder forces on polar molecules ”
Physical Review A 79 052903 (2009)
ArXiv: quant-ph/0812.1914
S. Å. Ellingsen “The Casimir frequency spectrum: can it be observed?”
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 161 012011 (2009)
[Proceedings of "60 years of Casimir effect", Brasilia, Brazil 2008]
S. Å. Ellingsen, I. Brevik, J. S. Høye, K. A. Milton “Low temperature Casimir-Lifshitz free energy and entropy: the case of poor conductors”
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 161 012010 (2009)
[Proceedings of "60 years of Casimir effect", Brasilia, Brazil 2008]
ArXiv: quant-ph/0809.0763
I. Brevik, S. Å. Ellingsen, K. A. Milton “Electromagnetic Casimir Effect in a Medium-Filled Wedge ”
Physical Review E 79 041120 (2009)
ArXiv: quant-ph/0901.4214
I. Brevik, S. A. Ellingsen “Comment on «Casimir Force Acting on Magnetodielectric Bodies Embedded in Media»”
Physical Review A 79 027801 (2009)
ArXiv: quant-ph/0806.2927
2008  
S. Å. Ellingsen “Casimir Lifshitz pressure and free energy: exploring a simple model”
in The Casimir Effect and Cosmology: A volume in honour of Professor Iver H. Brevik on the occasion of his 70th birthday edited by S. Odintsov, E. Elizalde and O.G. Gorbunova (Tomsk State Pedagogical University Press, Tomsk, Russia, 2008) pp.45-60
ArXiv: quant-ph/0811.1427
S. A. Ellingsen “Nernst's heat theorem for Casimir-Lifshitz free energy”
Physical Review E 78 021120 (2008)
ArXiv: quant-ph/0710.1015
S. A. Ellingsen, I. Brevik, J. S. Høye, K. A. Milton “Temperature correction to Casimir-Lifshitz free energy at low temperatures: semiconductors”
Physical Review E 78 021117 (2008)
ArXiv: quant-ph/0805.3065
S. A. Ellingsen “Frequency spectrum of the Casimir force: interpretation and a paradox”
Europhysics Letters 83 053001 (2008)
ArXiv: quant-ph/0804.2554
I. Brevik, S. A. Ellingsen, J. S. Høye, K. A. Milton “Analytical and numerical demonstration of how the Drude dispersive model satisfies Nernst's theorem for the Casimir entropy”
Journal of Physics A 41 164017 (2008)
[Proceedings of QFEXT07, Leipzig, Germany 2007]
ArXiv: quant-ph/0710.4882
2007  
J. S. Høye, I. Brevik, S. A. Ellingsen, J. B. Aarseth “Analytic and Numerical Verification of the Nernst Theorem for Metals”
Physical Review E 75 051127 (2007)
ArXiv: quant-ph/0703174

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S. A. Ellingsen, I. Brevik “Casimir force on real materials - the slab and cavity geometry”
Journal of Physics A 40 3643 (2007)
ArXiv: quant-ph/0611030
S. A. Ellingsen “Casimir attraction in multilayered plane parallel magnetodielectric systems”
Journal of Physics A 40 1951 (2007)
ArXiv: quant-ph/0607157
2006  
I. Brevik, S. A. Ellingsen, K. A. Milton “Thermal Corrections to the Casimir Effect”
New Journal of Physics 8 236 (2006)
ArXiv: quant-ph/0605005
SOCIAL SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS
S. A. Ellingsen “Deliberations of a Nuclear Terrorist: Patience or Opportunism?”
Defense & Security Analysis 26:4 353 (2010)
S. A. Ellingsen “Safeguards against nuclear terrorism: HEU vs Plutonium”
Defense & Security Analysis 24:2 129 (2008)
BOOK  
S. A. Å. Ellingsen “Nuclear Terrorism and Rational Choice”
(Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011)
My PhD thesis from King's published as book (see theses below).
ISBN: 978-3-8443-9426-9.
THESES  
S. Å. Ellingsen “Dispersion Forces in Micromechanics: Casimir and Casimir-Polder forces affected by geometry and temperature”
Degree: Ph.D.
Date awarded: March 2011
Examiners: Prof. Bo Sernelius, Prof. Finn Ravndal.
Institution: Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Available from author and public libraries (Norway).
S. A. Ellingsen “Nuclear Terrorism and Rational Choice” (10 MB)
Degree: Ph.D.
Date awarded: September 2009
Examiners: Dr. Charles D. Ferguson, Dr. Graham Spinardi
Institution: Department of War Studies, King's College London.
Note: Reformatted version; page numbers differ from official submission.
S. A. Ellingsen “Casimir Effect in Plane Parallel Geometry”
Degree: M.Sc. (Norwegian: Sivilingeniør)
Date awarded: June 2006
Institution: Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Available from author
BOOK REVIEWS
S. A. Ellingsen (review of Jack Caravelli «Nuclear Insecurity»)
Defense & Security Analysis 24:3 333 (2008)
S. A. Ellingsen “Strenghtening the Second Line of Defense”
(review of Michael Levi «On Nuclear Terrorism»)
Nonproliferation Review 15:2 399 (2008)
COLOUR LEGEND
Fluid mechanics, optofluidics, granular flow.
Casimir-Polder and van der Waals forces.
The Casimir effect.
Electromagnetics in media, optics.
Political science: Nuclear terrorism.