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We find the exact Casimir force between a plate and a cylinder, a geometry intermediate between parallel plates, where the force is known exactly, and the plate--sphere, where it is known at large separations. The force has an unexpectedly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Emig , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar , A. Scardicchio

The Casimir force can be understood as resulting from the radiation pressure exerted by the vacuum fluctuations reflected by boundaries. We extend this local formulation to the case of partially transmitting boundaries by introducing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

This paper studies the finite temperature Casimir force acting on a rectangular piston associated with a massless fractional Klein-Gordon field at finite temperature. Dirichlet boundary conditions are imposed on the walls of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 S. C. Lim , L. P. Teo

The Casimir force is calculated analytically for configurations of two parallel plates and a spherical lens (sphere) above a plate with account of nonzero temperature, finite conductivity of the boundary metal and surface roughness. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Geyer , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

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

We evaluate the Casimir energy and force for a massive scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter, subject to Robin boundary conditions on two codimension-one parallel plates, located on a $(D+1)$-dimensional background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-10 E. Elizalde , S. D. Odintsov , A. A. Saharian

A piston is introduced into a spherical lune Casimir cavity turning it into two adjacent lunes separated by the (hemispherical) piston. On the basis of zeta function regularisation, the vacuum energy of the arrangement is finite for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-11 J. S. Dowker

We consider the ground state energy of the electromagnetic field in a piston geometry. In the idealised case, where the piston and the walls of the chamber are taken as perfect mirrors, the Casimir pressure on the piston is finite and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 S. A. R. Horsley , W. M. R. Simpson

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

The interaction between a polarizable particle and a reflecting wall is examined. A macroscopic approach is adopted in which the averaged force is computed from the Maxwell stress tensor. The particular case of a perfectly reflecting wall…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. H. Ford

The normal and tangential Casimir force for the rack gear is calculated numerically in the case of ideal boundary conditions for the electromagnetic field - perfect reflection on the boundaries. The resulting tangential force appears to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yuliya Voronina , Petr Silaev

The Casimir force follows from quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field and yields a nonlinear attractive force between closely spaced conductive objects. Measuring the Casimir force in superconducting materials on either side of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Matthijs H. J. de Jong , Evren Korkmazgil , Louise Banniard , Mika A. Sillanpää , Laure Mercier de Lépinay

A multiple scattering formulation is used to calculate the force, arising from fluctuating scalar fields, between distinct bodies described by $\delta$-function potentials, so-called semitransparent bodies. (In the limit of strong coupling,…

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

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

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

Wightman function, the vacuum expectation values of the field square and the energy-momentum tensor are investigated for a massive scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter in the region between two coaxial cylindrical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Saharian , A. S. Tarloyan

Traditionally it is assumed that the Casimir vacuum pressure does not depend on the ultraviolet cut-off. There are, however, some arguments that the effect actually depends on the regularization procedure and thus on the trans-Planckian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. E. Volovik

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

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

Casimir forces are conventionally computed by analyzing the effects of boundary conditions on a fluctuating quantum field. Although this analysis provides a clean and calculationally tractable idealization, it does not always accurately…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Graham , R. L. Jaffe , V. Khemani , M. Quandt , O. Schroeder , H. Weigel