Casimir energy and the superconducting phase transition
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
We study the influence of Casimir energy on the critical field of a superconducting film, and we show that by this means it might be possible to directly measure, for the first time, the variation of Casimir energy that accompanies the superconducting transition. It is shown that this novel approach may also help clarifying the long-standing controversy on the contribution of TE zero modes to the Casimir energy in real materials.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0601179,
title = {Casimir energy and the superconducting phase transition},
author = {Giuseppe Bimonte and Enrico Calloni and Giampiero Esposito and Luigi Rosa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0601179},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 5 figures. Talk given at 7th Workshop on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT 05), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 5-9 Sep 2005