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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

The dynamical Casimir effect for a massless scalar field in 1+1-dimensions is studied numerically by solving a system of coupled first-order differential equations. The number of scalar particles created from vacuum is given by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcus Ruser

Using field theory we calculate the Casimir energy and Casimir force of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates restricted between two parallel plates, in which Dirichlet and periodic boundary conditions applied. Our results show that, in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-24 Nguyen Van Thu

In this paper we calculate the Casimir energy for spherical shell with massless self-interacting scalar filed which satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions on the shell. Using zeta function regularization and heat kernel coefficients we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. R. Setare , R. Mansouri

We revisit the calculation of vacuum energy density in compact spacetimes. For the general case of $k$ compact spatial dimensions in $p+k$ dimensional Minkowski spacetime, we calculate the Casimir force on a piston placed in the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 S. R. Haridev , Prasant Samantray

The Casimir stress on cylinderical shell in de Sitter background for massless scalar field satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions on the cylinder is calculated. The metric is written in conformally flat form to make maximum use of the…

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

The conventional Casimir effect has been studied in the continuous spacetime, but to elucidate its counterpart in the lattice space is an important subject. Here, we discuss various types of Casimir effects for quantum fields on the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-01-20 Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki

We re-evaluate the zero point Casimir energy for the case of a massive scalar field in $\mathbf{R}^{1}\times\mathbf{S}^{3}$ space, allowing also for deviations from the standard conformal value $\xi =1/6$, by means of zero temperature zeta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Elizalde , A. C. Tort

We compute the vacuum energy of a scalar field rotating with angular velocity $\Omega$ on a disk of radius $R$ and with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The rotation is introduced by a metric obtained by a Galilean transformation from a rest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-09 M. Bordag , I. G. Pirozhenko

We classify the sign of the critical Casimir force between two finite objects separated by a large distance in the two dimensional systems that can be described by conformal field theory (CFT). In particular, we show that as far as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-07 M. A. Rajabpour

The Wightman function and the vacuum expectation values of the field squared and of the energy-momentum tensor are obtained, for a massive scalar field with an arbitrary curvature coupling parameter, in the region between two infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 E. Elizalde , A. A. Saharian , T. A. Vardanyan

We study the Casimir effect for free massless scalar fields propagating on a two-dimensional cylinder with a metric that admits a change of signature from Lorentzian to Euclidean. We obtain a nonzero pressure, on the hypersurfaces of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Darabi , M. R. Setare

The Casimir effect for a three-parallel-plate system at finite temperature within the frame of five-dimensional Randall-Sundrum models is studied. In the case of Randall-Sundrum model involving two branes we find that the Casimir force…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Hongbo Cheng

We numerically test an experimentally realizable method for the extraction of the critical Casimir force based on its thermodynamic definition as the derivative of the excess free energy with respect to system size. Free energy differences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-31 David Lopes Cardozo , Hugo Jacquin , Peter C. W. Holdsworth

We re-evaluate the zero point Casimir energy for the case of a massive scalar field in $\mathbf{R}^{1}\times\mathbf{S}^{3}$ space, allowing also for deviations from the standard conformal value $\xi =1/6$, by means of zero temperature zeta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 E Elizalde , A C Tort

The problem of calculating the Casimir force on two conducting planes by means of the stress tensor is examined. The evaluation of this quantity is carried out using an explicit regularization procedure which has its origin in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-07 C. R. Hagen

Using the zeta function regularization method we calculate the ground state energy of scalar massive field inside a spherical region in the space-time of a point-like global monopole. Two cases are investigated: (i) We calculate the Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 E. R. Bezerra de Mello , V. B. Bezerra , N. R. Khusnutdinov

The Casimir energy of a massless scalar field is semiclassically given by contributions due to classical periodic rays. The required subtractions in the spectral density are determined explicitly. The so defined semiclassical Casimir energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Schaden

Using numerical analytic continuation, we compute the Zeta function for the Casimir Effect for circular geometries in 2+1 dimensions. After subtraction of the simple pole of the zeta function, essentially MS renormalization, we find the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-24 Daniel Davies

We derive the radiation pressure force on a non-relativistic moving plate in 1+1 dimensions. We assume that a massless scalar field satisfies either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions (BC) at the instantaneous position of the plate.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. T. Alves , C. Farina , P. A. Maia Neto