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Rederivation of the Casimir force under the completeness relation of continuum operator

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-07-18 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Casimir effects manifests that, the two closely paralleled plates, generally produce a macroscopic attractive force due to the quantum vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic fields. The derivation of the force requires an {\it artificial} regulator by removing the divergent summation. By including naturally a spectrum density factor, based on the observation that an incomplete eigenvectors of observable, such as the eigenstates for the photons in the free field, can form a complete set of eigenvectors by introducing a unique spectrum transformation, an alternative way is presented to rederive the force, without using a regulator. As a result, the Casimir forces are obtained with the first term π2c/(240a4)-\pi^2 \hbar c/(240 a^4) attractive, and the second one, π4c3σ2/(1008a6)-\pi^4 \hbar c^3 \sigma^2/(1008 a^6), also attractive but smaller, with aa the plate separation, and σ\sigma a to-be-determined small constant number in the spectrum density factor.

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@article{arxiv.1607.04477,
  title  = {Rederivation of the Casimir force under the completeness relation of continuum operator},
  author = {Gao Xianlong and Kelin Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.04477},
  year   = {2016}
}

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