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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

A comprehensive study on the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) numerical modelling of space- and time-varying media is presented. We investigate the dynamic behavior of oblique incidence of both TM and TE electromagnetic fields on…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-26 Sajjad Taravati , Ahmed A Kishk , George V Eleftheriades

The Dirac equation is solved using three-dimensional Finite Difference-Time Domain (FDTD) method. $Zitterbewegung$ and the dynamics of a well-localized electron are used as examples of FDTD application to the case of free electrons.

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-12-11 Neven Simicevic

This article is divided in three sections. In the first section we briefly review some high precision experiments on the Casimir force, underlying an important aspect of the analysis of the data. In the second section we discuss our recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Davide Iannuzzi , Ian Gelfand , Mariangela Lisanti , Federico Capasso

The Casimir effect is an interesting phenomenon in the sense that it provides us with one of the primitive means of extracting the energy out of the vacuum. Since the original work of Casimir a number of works have appeared in extending the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Abe , J. Hashida , T. Muta , A. Purwanto

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 present a new Monte Carlo method to calculate Casimir forces acting on objects in a near-critical fluid, considering the two basic cases of a wall and a sphere embedded in a two-dimensional Ising medium. During the simulation, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-19 Hendrik Hobrecht , Alfred Hucht

Frequency-domain unsteady lifting-line theory is better developed than its time-domain counterpart. To take advantage of this, this paper transforms time-domain kinematics to the frequency domain, performs a convolution and then returns the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-13 Hugh J. A. Bird , Kiran Ramesh

In this letter we present a procedure for the calculation of the Casimir functions of finite-dimensional Poisson systems which avoids the burden of solving a set of partial differential equations, as it is usually suggested in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Benito Hernández-Bermejo , V. Fairén

The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is a flexible and powerful technique for rigorously solving Maxwell's equations. However, three-dimensional optical nonlinearity in current commercial and research FDTD softwares requires…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-27 Charles Varin , Rhys Emms , Graeme Bart , Thomas Fennel , Thomas Brabec

We explore the non-linear dynamics of two parallel periodically patterned metal surfaces that are coupled by the zero-point fluctuations of the electromagnetic field between them. The resulting Casimir force generates for asymmetric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thorsten Emig

This paper establishes a far-reaching connection between the Finite-Difference Time-Domain method (FDTD) and the theory of dissipative systems. The FDTD equations for a rectangular region are written as a dynamical system having the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Fadime Bekmambetova , Xinyue Zhang , Piero Triverio

The Casimir energy is calculated in one-, two-, and three-dimensional spaces for the field with generalized coordinates and momenta satisfying the deformed Poisson brackets leading to the minimal length.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ivan Vakarchuk

In this paper, we analyze and provide numerical illustrations for a moving finite element method applied to convection-dominated, time-dependent partial differential equations. We follow a method of lines approach and utilize an underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Randolph E. Bank , Maximilian S. Metti

We present a quantum theory of Casimir forces between perfect electrical conductors, based on quantum electrodynamics and quantum statistical physics. This theory utilizes Kapusta's finite-temperature field theory, combined with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-14 P. E. Brandyshev , Yu. A. Budkov

The proximity force approximation (PFA) relates the interaction between closely spaced, smoothly curved objects to the force between parallel plates. Precision experiments on Casimir forces necessitate, and spur research on, corrections to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 G. Bimonte , T. Emig , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar

We utilize an effective field theory approach to calculate Casimir interactions between objects bound to thermally fluctuating fluid surfaces or interfaces. This approach circumvents the complicated constraints imposed by such objects on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Cem Yolcu , Ira Z. Rothstein , Markus Deserno

A time-dependent Casimir-Polder force is shown to arise during the time evolution of a partially dressed two-level atom. The partially dressed atom is obtained by a rapid change of an atomic parameter such as its transition frequency, due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Passante , F. Persico

By the thermofield dynamics (TFD) formalism we obtain the energy-momentum tensor for the Electromagnetism with Lorentz Breaking Even term of the Standard Model Extended (SME) Sector in a topology $S^{1}\times S^{1}\times R^{2}$. We carry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-10 L. M. Silva , H. Belich , J. A. Helayël-Neto

One of the most popular methods employed in computational electromagnetics is the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method. We generalise it to a meshless setting using the Radial Basis Function generated Finite Difference (RBF-FD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Andrej Kolar-Požun , Gregor Kosec