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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

We study the vacuum polarization (Casimir) energy in renormalizable, continuum quantum field theory in the presence of a background field, designed to impose Dirichlet boundary conditions on the fluctuating quantum field. In two and three…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Weigel

We study the problem of the behavior of a quantum massless scalar field in the space between two parallel infinite perfectly conducting plates, one of them stationary, the other moving periodically. We reformulate the physical problem into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikola P. Petrov

We consider a real massless scalar field in 1+1 dimensions satisfying time-dependent Robin boundary condition at a static wall. This condition can simulate moving reflecting mirrors whose motions are determined by the time-dependence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-12 Hector O. Silva , C. Farina

The Casimir forces on two parallel plates in conformally flat domain wall background due to conformally coupled massless scalar field satisfying mixed boundary conditions on the plates is investigated. In the general case of mixed boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 M. R. Setare

The vacuum expectation values for the energy-momentum tensor of a massive scalar field with general curvature coupling and obeying the Robin boundary condition on spherically symmetric boundaries in D-dimensional space are investigated. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Aram A. Saharian

We present a simple formalism for the evaluation of the Casimir energy for two spheres and a sphere and a plane, in case of a scalar fluctuating field, valid at any separations. We compare the exact results with various approximation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Aurel Bulgac , Piotr Magierski , Andreas Wirzba

We study the Dynamical Casimir Effect (DCE) for a real scalar field $\varphi$ in $d+1$ dimensions, in the presence of a mirror that imposes Dirichlet boundary conditions and undergoes time-dependent motion or deformation. Using a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 B. C. Guntsche , C. D. Fosco

The Casimir effect giving rise to an attractive or repulsive force between the configuration boundaries that confine the massless scalar field is reexamined for one to three-dimensional pistons in this paper. Especially, we consider Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiang-hua Zhai , Xin-zhou Li

In this paper, we consider the Casimir energy of massless scalar field which satisfy Dirichlet boundary condition on a spherical shell. Outside the shell, the spacetime is assumed to be described by the Schwarzschild metric, while inside…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. Setare , M. B. Altaie

We develop an exact method for computing the Casimir energy between arbitrary compact objects, both with boundary conditions for a scalar field and dielectrics or perfect conductors for the electromagnetic field. The energy is obtained as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Emig , R. L. Jaffe

Following a field-theoretical approach, we study the scalar Casimir effect upon a perfectly conducting cylindrical shell in the presence of spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. The scalar field is modeled by a Lorentz-breaking extension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-22 A. M. Escobar-Ruiz , A. Martín-Ruiz , Escobar C. A. , Román Linares

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

Understanding the nature of dark energy and dark matter is one of modern physics' greatest open problems. Scalar-tensor theories with screened scalar fields like the chameleon model are among the most popular proposed solutions. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Ana Lucía Báez-Camargo , Daniel Hartley , Christian Käding , Ivette Fuentes-Guridi

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

We evaluate the effective action for the Dynamical Casimir Effect (DCE) for a real scalar field in d+1 dimensions within the worldline formulation of quantum field theory. The scalar field is coupled to a spacetime-dependent mass term,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 C. D. Fosco , B. C. Guntsche

The local Casimir energy is investigated for a wedge with and without a circular outer boundary due to the confinement of a massless scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter and satisfying the Dirichlet boundary conditions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Amir H. Rezaeian , Aram A. Saharian

We analyze the Casimir densities and forces associated with a massive scalar quantum field confined between two parallel plates in a D-dimensional cosmic string spacetime. The plates are placed orthogonal to the string and the field obeys…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-03 E. R. Bezerra de Mello , A. A. Saharian , S. V. Abajyan

We use the generalized Chowla-Selberg formula to consider the Casimir effect of a scalar field with a helix torus boundary condition in the flat ($D+1$)-dimensional spacetime. We obtain the exact results of the Casimir energy density and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiang-hua Zhai , Xin-zhou Li , Chao-Jun Feng

We study the Dynamical Casimir Effect resulting from the oscillatory motion of either one or two flat semitransparent mirrors, coupled to a quantum real and massless scalar field. Our approach is based on a perturbative evaluation, in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 C. D. Fosco , A. Giraldo , F. D. Mazzitelli