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We consider the Casimir interaction, mediated by massless fermions, between a spherical defect and a flat potential barrier, assuming hard (bag-type) boundary conditions at both the barrier and the surface of the sphere. The computation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-06 Antonino Flachi , Lee-Peng Teo

The Casimir effect for photons and Dirac fermion fields, and its generalization to $(D+1)$-dimensional spacetime in the continuum, is studied. We implement MIT bag boundary conditions on the lattice by treating the system as a confined…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-01 Yash V. Mandlecha

Based on a perturbative approach, a series expansion in susceptibility function of the medium is obtained for the Casimir force between arbitrary shaped objects immersed in a scalar or vector fluctuating field in arbitrary dimensions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Fardin Kheirandish , Marjan Jafari

The Casimir effect for a massless scalar field on the helix boundary condition which is named as quantum spring is studied in our recent paper\cite{Feng}. In this paper, the Casimir effect of the quantum spring is investigated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-08 Xiang-hua Zhai , Xin-zhou Li , Chao-Jun Feng

We use a functional approach to calculate the Casimir energy due to Dirac fields in interaction with thin, flat, parallel walls, which implement imperfect bag-like boundary conditions. These are simulated by the introduction of delta-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. D. Fosco , E. L. Losada

We investigate the pseudo-Casimir force acting between two charged surfaces confining a single polyelectrolyte chain with opposite charge. We expand the exact free energy to the second order in the local electrostatic field as well as the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Podgornik , J. Dobnikar

We consider the Casimir effect for a scalar field interacting with another scalar field that is confined to two half spaces. This model is aimed to mimic the interaction of the photon field with matter in two slabs. We use Dirichlet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Michael Bordag , Irina G. Pirozhenko

Within the scattering theoretical approach, the Casimir force is obtained numerically by an evaluation of the round trip of an electromagnetic wave between the objects involved. Recently [Hartmann M et al. 2017, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 043901]…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Michael Hartmann , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Paulo A. Maia Neto

We give a comprehensive presentation of methods for calculating the Casimir force to arbitrary accuracy, for any number of objects, arbitrary shapes, susceptibility functions, and separations. The technique is applicable to objects immersed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 Sahand Jamal Rahi , Thorsten Emig , Noah Graham , Robert L. Jaffe , Mehran Kardar

The Casimir effect arises when long-ranged fluctuations are geometrically confined between two surfaces, leading to a macroscopic force. Traditionally, these forces have been observed in quantum systems and near critical points in classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-19 Justin C. Burton , Juan-José Liétor-Santos

In this paper, we consider the fermionic Casimir effect under a new type of space-time topology using the concept of quotient topology. The relation between the new topology and that in Ref. \cite{Feng,Zhai3} is something like that between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-30 Xiang-hua Zhai , Xin-zhou Li , Chao-Jun Feng

We consider Casimir force acting on a three dimensional rectangular piston due to a massive scalar field subject to periodic, Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. Exponential cut-off method is used to derive the Casimir energy in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 S. C. Lim , L. P. Teo

In this work we study the Casimir effect for massless scalar fields propagating in a piston geometry of the type $I\times N$ where $I$ is an interval of the real line and $N$ is a smooth compact Riemannian manifold. Our analysis represents…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Guglielmo Fucci , Klaus Kirsten , Jose M. Munoz-Castaneda

Casimir forces between conductors at the sub-micron scale cannot be ignored in the design and operation of micro-electromechanical (MEM) devices. However, these forces depend non-trivially on geometry, and existing formulae and…

We compute the Casimir force for a system composed of two layers as substrates within three different homogenous layers. We use the scattering approach along with the Matsubara formalism in order to calculate the Casimir force at finite…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-30 A. Moradian , M. R. Setare , S. A. Seyedzahedi

The Casimir force between graphene sheets is investigated with emphasis on the effect from spatial dispersion using a combination of factors, such as a nonzero chemical potential and an induced energy gap. We distinguish between two regimes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Drosdoff , A. D. Phan , L. M. Woods , I. V. Bondarev , J. F. Dobson

A novel approach for calculating Casimir forces between periodically deformed objects is developed. This approach allows, for the first time, a rigorous non-perturbative treatment of the Casimir effect for disconnected objects beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-17 Thorsten Emig

Casimir effects manifests that, the two closely paralleled plates, generally produce a macroscopic attractive force due to the quantum vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic fields. The derivation of the force requires an {\it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-18 Gao Xianlong , Kelin Wang

We study the electromagnetic Casimir interaction of a compact object contained inside a closed cavity of another compact object. We express the interaction energy in terms of the objects' scattering matrices and translation matrices that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Saad Zaheer , Sahand Jamal Rahi , Thorsten Emig , Robert L. Jaffe

The Casimir effect arises from the zero-point energy of particles in momentum space deformed by the existence of two parallel plates. For degrees of freedom on the lattice, its energy-momentum dispersion is determined so as to keep a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-15 Tsutomu Ishikawa , Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki