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The Casimir effect for parallel plates satisfying the Dirichlet boundary condition in the context of effective QED coming from a six-dimensional Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution of the Abelian Higgs model with fermions coupled to gravity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-26 Hongbo Cheng

The familiar trace identity associated with the scale transformation xxxx on the Lagrangian density for a noninteracting massive real scalar field in 2 + 1 dimensions is shown to be violated on a single plate on which the Dirichlet boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. G. Kamath

We derive a general expression for the Casimir energy corresponding to two flat parallel mirrors in d+1 dimensions, described by nonlocal interaction potentials. For a real scalar field, the interaction with the mirrors is implemented by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 C. D. Fosco , E. Losada

We present non-perturbative results of the Casimir potential in non-abelian SU(3) gauge theory in (2+1)D and (3+1)D in the confined and deconfined phase. For the first time, geometries beyond parallel plates in (3+1)D are explored and we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-30 B. A. Ngwenya , A. K. Rothkopf , W. A. Horowitz

In this paper I study the Casimir effect caused by a charged and massive scalar field that breaks Lorentz invariance in a CPT-even, aether-like manner. The breaking of Lorentz invariance is implemented by a constant space-like vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-13 Andrea Erdas

We analyze the dynamical Casimir effect for a massless scalar field confined between two concentric spherical shells which impose on the field mixed boundary conditions. We thus complement a previous result [Phys. Rev. A \textbf{78}, 032521…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-27 F. Pascoal , L. C. Céleri , S. S. Mizrahi , M. H. Y. Moussa , C. Farina

A one-dimensional Casimir piston for massless scalar fields obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions in high-dimensional spacetimes within the frame of Kaluza-Klein theory is analyzed. We derive and calculate the exact expression for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hongbo Cheng

In this paper, the Casimir effect for parallel plates in the presence of one compactified universal extra dimension is reexamined in detail. Having regularized the expressions of Casimir force, we show that the nature of Casimir force is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Hongbo Cheng

The Casimir force between dielectric bodies is well-understood, but not the Casimir force inside a dielectric, in particular its renormalization. We develop and analyse a simple model for the Casimir forces inside a medium that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 H. Horner , L. M. Rachbauer , S. Rotter , U. Leonhardt

We present a simple formalism for the evaluation of the Casimir energy for two spheres and a sphere and a plane, in case of a scalar fluctuating field, valid at any separations. We compare the exact results with various approximation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Aurel Bulgac , Piotr Magierski , Andreas Wirzba

The singular part of the finite-size free energy density $f_s$ of the O($n$) symmetric $\phi^4$ field theory is calculated for confined geometries of linear size L with periodic boundary conditions in the large-N limit and with Dirichlet…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. S. Chen , V. Dohm

Recent exact $n\to\infty$ results for critical Casimir forces of the $O(n)$ $\phi^4$ model on a three-dimensional strip bounded by two planar free surfaces at a distance $L$ are surveyed. This model has long-range order below the bulk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-17 H. W. Diehl , Sergei B. Rutkevich

We present the Casimir energy of spherical shell, for the symmetrically deformed scalar field in $\kappa$-Minkowski space-time, satisfying Dirichlet boundary condition. The Casimir energy shows the particle anti-particle symmetry contrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-03-18 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Chaiho Rim , Jae Hyung Yee

The vacuum expectation values of the energy--momentum tensor are investigated for massless scalar fields satisfying Dicichlet or Neumann boundary conditions, and for the electromagnetic field with perfect conductor boundary conditions on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 R. M. Avagyan , A. A. Saharian , A. H. Yeranyan

An explicit calculation of Casimir effect through an alternative approach of field quantization [1, 2], has been presented in this paper. In this method, the auxiliary negative norm states have been utilized, the modes of which do not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Khosravi , M. Naseri , S. Rouhani , M. V. Takook

The Casimir effect in an inhomogeneous dielectric is investigated using Lifshitz's theory of electromagnetic vacuum energy. A permittivity function that depends continuously on one Cartesian coordinate is chosen, bounded on each side by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. G. Philbin , C. Xiong , U. Leonhardt

The vacuum fluctuations give rise to a number of phenomena; however, the the Casimir Effect is arguably the most salient manifestation of the quantum vacuum. In its most basic form it is realized through the interaction of a pair of neutral…

General Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 Richard Obousy

We study the field theoretical model of a scalar field in presence of spacial inhomogeneities in form of one and two finite width mirrors (material slabs). The interaction of the scalar field with the defect is described with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 I. V. Fialkovsky , V. N. Markov , Yu. M. Pis'mak

Guided by idealized but soluble nonrenormalizable models, a nontraditional proposal for the quantization of covariant scalar field theories is advanced, which achieves a term-by-term, divergence-free perturbation analysis of interacting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-09-21 John R. Klauder

Quantities associated with Casimir forces are calculated in a model wave system of one spatial dimension with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. 1)Due to zero-point fluctuations, a partition is attracted to the walls of a box if the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Timothy H. Boyer