Casimir energies with finite-width mirrors
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We use a functional approach to the Casimir effect in order to evaluate the exact vacuum energy for a real scalar field in dimensions, in the presence of backgrounds that, in a particular limit, impose Dirichlet boundary conditions on one or two parallel surfaces. Outside of that limit, the background may be thought of as describing finite-width mirrors with frequency-dependent transmission and reflection coefficients. We provide new explicit results for the Casimir energy in some particular backgrounds
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@article{arxiv.0801.0760,
title = {Casimir energies with finite-width mirrors},
author = {C. D. Fosco and F. C. Lombardo and F. D. Mazzitelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0760},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
18 pages, no figures. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D