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We consider the finite temperature Casimir force acting on two parallel plates in a closed cylinder with the same cross section of arbitrary shape in the presence of extra dimensions. Dirichlet boundary conditions are imposed on one plate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 L. P. Teo , K. Kirsten

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

We compute the Casimir energy between an unusual pair of parallel plates at finite temperature, namely, a perfectely conducting plate ($\epsilon\to\infty$) and an infinitely permeable one ($\mu\to\infty$) by applying the generalized zeta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 F. C. Santos , A. Tenório , A. C. Tort

The Casimir force between a pair of parallell plates filled with ionic particles is considered. We use a statistical mechanical approach and consider the classical high temperature limit. In this limit the ideal metal result with no…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-18 J. S. Høye

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

Based on a unified approach to macroscopic QED that allows for the inclusion of amplification in a limited space and frequency range, we study the Casimir force as a Lorentz force on an arbitrary partially amplifying system of linearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Agnes Sambale , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Ho Trung Dung

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 computed by consideration of the vacuum fluctuations that are suppressed by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-13 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley

We study Casimir interactions between cylinders in thermal non-equilibrium, where the objects as well as the environment are held at different temperatures. We provide the general formula for the force, in a one reflection approximation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-17 Vladyslav A. Golyk , Matthias Krüger , M. T. Homer Reid , Mehran Kardar

The Casimir force between two parallel plates in the G\"odel universe is computed for a scalar field at finite temperature. It is observed that when the plates separation is comparable with the scale given by the rotation of the space-time,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-22 Sh. Khodabakhshi , A. Shojai

We investigate the possibility of measuring the thermal Casimir force and its gradient in the configuration of a plate and a microfabricated cylinder attached to a micromachined oscillator. The Lifshitz-type formulas in this configuration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. S. Decca , E. Fischbach , G. L. Klimchitskaya , D. E. Krause , D. Lopez , V. M. Mostepanenko

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

We calculated the force of the quantum vacuum, the Casimir force, in a spherically symmetric medium, Maxwell's fish eye, surrounded by a perfect mirror and derived an exact analytic solution. Our solution questions the idea that the Casimir…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ulf Leonhardt , William M. R. Simpson

The Casimir interaction between one-dimensional metallic objects (cylinders, wires) displays unconventional features. Here we study the orientation dependence of this interaction by computing the Casimir energy between two inclined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 P. Rodriguez-Lopez , T. Emig

We compute the finite temperature Casimir energy for massive scalar field with general curvature coupling subject to Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on the walls of a closed cylinder with arbitrary cross section, located in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 L. P. Teo

We want to study the Casimir effect for a single conducting microscopic cylindrical cavity. The mathematical technique is based on the Green function of the geometry of the inside of the cavity, and the integral regularization is based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-28 H. Razmi , S. M. Shirazi

The Casimir energy is computed in the geometry of interest for the most precise experiments, a plane and a sphere in electromagnetic vacuum. The scattering formula is developed on adapted plane-waves and multipole basis, leading to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-31 Paulo A. Maia Neto , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

In this article we compute the Casimir force between two finite-width mirrors at finite temperature, working in a simplified model in 1+1 dimensions. The mirrors, considered as dissipative media, are modeled by a continuous set of harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Fernando C. Lombardo , Francisco D. Mazzitelli , Adrian E. Rubio Lopez

The Casimir interaction energy for a class of discrete self-similar configuration of parallel plates is evaluated using existing methods. The similarities to characteristics of an attractive Casimir force is deduced only at infinite range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Venkat Abhignan , R. Sankaranarayanan

Using a path integral approach we rederive a recently found representation of the Casimir energy for a sphere and a cylinder in front of a plane and derive the first correction to the proximity force theorem.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag

Quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field in the medium surrounding two discharged macroscopic polarizable bodies induce a force between the two bodies, the so called Casimir force. In the last two decades many experiments have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Giuseppe Bimonte