Classical limit of the Casimir entropy for scalar massless field
Quantum Physics
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We study the Casimir effect at finite temperature for a massless scalar field in the parallel plates geometry in N spatial dimensions, under various combinations of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on the plates. We show that in all these cases the entropy, in the limit where energy equipartitioning applies, is a geometrical factor whose sign determines the sign of the Casimir force.
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@article{arxiv.0708.1615,
title = {Classical limit of the Casimir entropy for scalar massless field},
author = {S. Rubin and J. Feinberg and A. Mann and M. Revzen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.1615},
year = {2008}
}
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14 pages