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The Casimir energies and pressures for a massless scalar field associated with $\delta$-function potentials in 1+1 and 3+1 dimensions are calculated. For parallel plane surfaces, the results are finite, coincide with the pressures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kimball A. Milton

We perform a detailed analysis of renormalization at one-loop order in the $\lambda\phi^4$ theory with Robin boundary condition (characterized by a constant $c$) on a single plate at $z=0$. For arbitrary $c\geq0$ the renormalized theory is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Luiz C de Albuquerque

In this paper, we derive the formula for the Casimir interaction energy between a sphere and a plate in $(D+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. It is assumed that the scalar field satisfies the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 L. P. Teo

We investigate the Casimir effect as a probe of Lorentz symmetry violation for a real scalar field confined to a rectangular waveguide with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The field dynamics is governed by a Lorentz-violating extension of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 M. B. Cruz , E. R. Bezerra de Mello , A. Martín-Ruiz

We calculate the Casimir interaction energy in $d=2$ spatial dimensions between two (zero-width) mirrors, one flat, and the other slightly curved, upon which {\em imperfect\/} conductor boundary conditions are imposed for an Electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

In this paper we examine the Casimir effect for charged fields in presence of external magnetic field. We consider scalar field (connected with spinless particles) and the Dirac field (connected with 1/2-spin particles). In both cases we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcin Ostrowski

Boundary conditions for the Maxwell and Dirac fields at material surfaces are widely-used and physically well-motivated, but do not appear to have been generalised to deal with higher spin fields. As a result there is no clear prescription…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-15 Adam Stokes , Robert Bennett

Explicit divergences and counterterms do not appear in the differential renormalization method, but they are concealed in the neglected surface terms in the formal partial integration procedure used. A systematic real space cutoff procedure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-08 D. Z. Freedman , K. Johnson , R. Munoz-Tapia , X. Vilasis-Cardona

In this paper we consider a Lorentz-breaking scalar field theory within the Horava-Lifshtz approach. We investigate the changes that a space-time anisotropy produces in the Casimir effect. A massless real quantum scalar field is considered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-05 I. J. Morales Ulion , E. R. Bezerra de Mello , A. Yu. Petrov

We consider the Casimir effect for a sphere in front of a plane at finite temperature for scalar and electromagnetic fields and calculate the limiting cases. For small separation we compare the exact results with the corresponding ones…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Bordag , I. Pirozhenko

We consider a scalar $\phi^4$ theory on canonically deformed Euclidean space in 4 dimensions with an additional oscillator potential. This model is known to be renormalisable. An exterior gauge field is coupled in a gauge invariant manner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Harald Grosse , Michael Wohlgenannt

We study the Casimir piston for massless scalar fields obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions in a three dimensional cavity with sides of arbitrary lengths $a,b$ and $c$ where $a$ is the plate separation. We obtain an exact expression for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ariel Edery

Delving into spring-like helical configurations, such as DNA within our cells, motivates physicists to inquire about the effects of such structures in the realm of quantum field theory, specifically unraveling their manifestation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-14 M. A. Valuyan

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Rubin , J. Feinberg , A. Mann , M. Revzen

This paper investigates the Casimir Energy modifications due to the Lorentz-violating CPT-even contribution in an extension of the scalar QED. We have considered the complex scalar field satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions between two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-20 M. C. Araújo , J. Furtado , R. V. Maluf

We renormalize various scalar field theories with a $\phi^n$ self interaction such as $n$ $=$ $5$, $7$ and $9$ in their respective critical dimensions which are non-integer. The renormalization group functions for the $O(N)$ symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-17 J. A. Gracey

In this paper we investigate the bosonic Casimir effect in a Lorentz-violating symmetry scenario. The theoretical model adopted consists of a real massive scalar quantum field confined in a region between two large parallel plates, having…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 R. A. Dantas , H. F. Santana Mota , E. R. Bezerra de Mello

The Casimir problem is usually posed as the response of a fluctuating quantum field to externally imposed boundary conditions. In reality, however, no interaction is strong enough to enforce a boundary condition on all frequencies of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Graham , R. L. Jaffe , V. Khemani , M. Quandt , M. Scandurra , H. Weigel

In looking for imprints of extra dimensions in brane world models one usually builts these so that they are compatible with known low energy physics and thus focuses on high energy effects. Nevertheless, just as submillimeter Newton's law…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Roman Linares , Hugo A. Morales-Tecotl , Omar Pedraza

We investigate the Casimir effect at finite temperature for a charged scalar field in the presence of an external uniform and constant magnetic field, perpendicular to the Casimir plates. We have used a boundary condition characterized by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Cougo-Pinto , C. Farina , J. F. M. Mendes , A. Tort