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Nonperturbative Casimir effects: Vacuum structure, Confinement, and Chiral Symmetry Breaking

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-08-09 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

The review of vacuum and matter restructuring in space-time with boundaries is presented. We consider phase properties of confining gauge theories and strongly interacting fermion systems. In particular, the chiral and deconfinement phase transitions properties in the presence of Casimir plates. We also discuss mass scale shifts in such systems and their possible dynamical and geometrical nature.

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@article{arxiv.2208.03457,
  title  = {Nonperturbative Casimir effects: Vacuum structure, Confinement, and Chiral Symmetry Breaking},
  author = {Alexander Molochkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.03457},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

12 pages, 8 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 167: "Chiral Matter", Stockholm, June 2021