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Casimir effect at nonzero temperature for wedges and cylinders

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-03-23 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider the Casimir-Helmholtz free energy at nonzero temperature TT for a circular cylinder and perfectly conducting wedge closed by a cylindrical arc, either perfectly conducting or isorefractive. The energy expression at nonzero temperature may be regularized to obtain a finite value, except for a singular corner term in the case of the wedge which is present also at zero temperature. Assuming the medium in the interior of the cylinder or wedge be nondispersive with refractive index nn, the temperature dependence enters only through the non-dimensional parameter 2πnaT2\pi naT, aa being the radius of the cylinder or cylindrical arc. We show explicitly that the known zero temperature result is regained in the limit aT0aT\to 0 and that previously derived high temperature asymptotics for the cylindrical shell are reproduced exactly.

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@article{arxiv.1001.2630,
  title  = {Casimir effect at nonzero temperature for wedges and cylinders},
  author = {Simen Å. Ellingsen and Iver Brevik and Kimball A. Milton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2630},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures

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