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The Casimir effect for Dirac as well as for scalar charged particles is influenced by external magnetic fields. It is also influenced by finite temperature. Here we consider the Casimir effect for a charged scalar field under the combined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Cougo-Pinto , C. Farina , M. R. Negrao , A. Tort

Casimir forces are a manifestation of the change in the zero-point energy of the vacuum caused by the insertion of boundaries. We show how the Casimir force can be efficiently computed by consideration of the vacuum fluctuations that are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-31 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley

We employ path integral methods to calculate the Casimir energy and force densities in a chiral extension of QED. Manifestly gauge invariant perfect electromagnetic boundary conditions, a natural generalization of perfect electric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-10 Fabrizio Canfora , David Dudal , Thomas Oosthuyse , Pablo Pais , Luigi Rosa

We explore the dependence of vacuum energy on the boundary conditions for massive scalar fields in (2 + 1)-dimensional spacetimes. We consider the simplest geometrical setup given by a two-dimensional space bounded by two homogeneous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-08 Manuel Asorey , Claudio Iuliano , Fernando Ezquerro

The Casimir effect for massless scalar fields satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions on the parallel plates in the presence of one fractal extra compactified dimension is analyzed. We obtain the Casimir energy density by means of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Hongbo Cheng

We construct various self-similar configurations using parallel $\delta$-function plates and show that it is possible to evaluate the Casimir interaction energy of these configurations using the idea of self-similarity alone. We restrict…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-14 K. V. Shajesh , Iver Brevik , Inés Cavero-Peláez , Prachi Parashar

A novel technique based on Schwinger's proper time method is applied to the Casimir problem of the M.I.T. bag model. Calculations of the regularized vacuum energies of massless scalar and Dirac spinor fields confined to a static and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 R. Hofmann , M. Schumann , R. D. Viollier

In this work, we investigate the violation of Lorentz symmetry through the Casimir effect. The Casimir effect is one of the most intriguing aspects of modern physics, representing a macroscopic quantum-origin force between two neutral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-29 E. R. Bezerra de Mello , M. B. Cruz

The Casimir energy corresponding to a massive scalar field with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a spherical bag is obtained. The field is considered, separately, inside and outside the bag. The renormalization procedure that is necessary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , K. Kirsten , E. Elizalde , S. Leseduarte

Performing functional integration of the free Lagrangian, we find the vacuum energy of a field. The functional integration is performed in a way which easily generalizes to systems at non-zero temperature. We use this technique to obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Avijit K. Ganguly , Palash B. Pal

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 present a detailed description of a quantum scalar field theory within a flat spacetime confined to a cavity with perfectly reflecting moving boundaries. Moreover, we establish an equivalence between this time-dependent setting and a…

This work investigates the thermal Casimir effect associated with a massive spinor field defined on a four-dimensional flat space with a circularly compactified spatial dimension whose periodicity is oriented along a vector in $xy$-plane.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Joás Venâncio , Lameque Filho , Herondy Mota , Azadeh Mohammadi

Dirichlet boundary conditions on a surface can be imposed on a scalar field, by coupling it quadratically to a $\delta$-like potential, the strength of which tends to infinity. Neumann conditions, on the other hand, require the introduction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

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

A new method based on the Monte-Carlo calculation on the lattice is proposed to study the Casimir effect in the noncompact lattice QED. We have studied the standard Casimir problem with two parallel plane surfaces (mirrors) and oblique…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-05-25 Oleg Pavlovsky , Maxim Ulybyshev

In the present study, the zeroth- and first-order radiative correction of the Casimir energy for massive and massless scalar fields, confined with mixed boundary conditions (Dirichlet- Neumann) between two parallel plates in $\phi^4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-18 M. A. Valuyan

In this paper, we analyze the fermionic Casimir effects associated with a massless quantum field in the context of Lorentz symmetry violation approach based on Horava-Lifshitz methodology. In order to obtain these observables, we impose the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-22 Dêivid R. da Silva , M. B. Cruz , E. R. Bezerra de Mello

In the present study, the first-order radiative correction to the Casimir energy for massive and massless scalar fields confined with mixed boundary conditions (Dirichlet-Neumann) between two points in \phi^4 theory was computed. Two issues…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-10 M. A. Valuyan

We consider the Casimir interaction between two spheres corresponding to massless Dirac fields with MIT-bag boundary conditions. Using operator approach, we derive the TGTG-formula for the Casimir interaction energy between the two spheres.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 L. P. Teo