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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

The Casimir effect giving rise to an attractive force between the configuration boundaries that confine the massless scalar field is rigorously proven for odd dimensional hypercube with the Dirichlet boundary conditions and different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Xin-zhou Li , Xiang-hua Zhai

In this paper we study the Casimir energy and force for generalized pistons constructed from warped product manifolds of the type $I\times_{f}N$ where $I=[a,b]$ is an interval of the real line and $N$ is a smooth compact Riemannian manifold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-15 Guglielmo Fucci , Klaus Kirsten

We revisit the calculation of the Casimir effect from the perspective of scale limited resolutions of quantum fields. We use the continuous wavelet transform to introduce a scale degree of freedom and then restrict it to simulate either an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Šimon Vedl , Daniel J. George , Gavin K. Brennen

Recently, a method based on stochastic quantization has been proposed to compute the Casimir force and its fluctuations in arbitrary geometries. It relies on the spectral decomposition of the Laplacian operator in the given geometry. Both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto

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 pistons are models in which finite Casimir forces can be calculated without any suspect renormalizations. It has been suggested that such forces are always attractive, but we present several counterexamples, notably a simple type of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-18 S. A. Fulling , L. Kaplan , J. H. Wilson

The Casimir energy for a massless scalar field between the closely spaced two concentric D-dimensional (for D>3) spheres is calculated by using the mode summation with contour integration in the complex plane of eigenfrequencies and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Mustafa Özcan

We compute Casimir forces in open geometries with edges, involving parallel as well as perpendicular semi-infinite plates. We focus on Casimir configurations which are governed by a unique dimensional scaling law with a universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Holger Gies , Klaus Klingmuller

In this work, we obtain the Casimir energy for the real scalar field and the Elko neutral spinor field in a field theory at a Lifshitz fixed point (LP). We analyze the massless and the massive case for both fields using dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 R. V. Maluf , D. M. Dantas , C. A. S. Almeida

We study the Casimir force in piston-like geometries semiclassically. The force on the piston is finite and physical, but to leading semiclassical approximation depends strongly on the shape of the surrounding cavity. Whereas this force is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-24 Martin Schaden , Liviu Mateescu

I investigate the finite temperature Casimir effect for a charged and massless scalar field satisfying mixed (Dirichlet-Neumann) boundary conditions on a pair of plane parallel plates of infinite size. The effect of a uniform magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-03 Andrea Erdas

The Casimir effect giving rise to an attractive force between the closely spaced two concentric spheres that confine the massless scalar field is calculated by using a direct mode summation with contour integration in the complex plane of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-19 Mustafa Ozcan

The Casimir stress on two concentric spherical shell in de Sitter background for massless scalar field is calculated. The scalar field satisfies Dirichlet boundary conditions on the spheres. The metric is written in conformally flat form to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. Setare

We calculate the Casimir force for a fermionic quantum field in a piston geometry with three parallel plates. The fermion satisfies bag boundary conditions on the plates and the spacetime is assumed to have compact extra dimensions. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-13 V. K. Oikonomou

The Casimir effect for {mass dimension one fermion fields (sometimes called Elko)} in $3+1$ dimension is obtained using Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is shown the existence of a repulsive force four times greater than the case of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-03 S. H. Pereira , J. M. Hoff da Silva , Rubia dos Santos

Quantum fluctuations of massless scalar fields represented by quantum fluctuations of the quasiparticle vacuum in a zero-temperature dilute Bose-Einstein condensate may well provide the first experimental arena for measuring the Casimir…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ariel Edery

For the configuration of a sphere in front of a plane we calculate the first two terms of the asymptotic expansion for small separation of the Casimir force. We consider both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , V. Nikolaev

We present a method of computing Casimir forces for arbitrary geometries, with any desired accuracy, that can directly exploit the efficiency of standard numerical-electromagnetism techniques. Using the simplest possible finite-difference…

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