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In this article, we study the finite temperature Casimir effect for scalar field with Robin boundary conditions on two parallel plates in a background spacetime that has a compact internal manifold with arbitrary geometry. The finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 L. P. Teo

We show that Casimir-force calculations for a finite number of non-overlapping obstacles can be mapped onto quantum-mechanical billiard-type problems which are characterized by the scattering of a fictitious point particle off the very same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreas Wirzba

A one-dimensional Casimir piston for massless scalar fields obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions in high-dimensional spacetimes within the frame of Kaluza-Klein theory is analyzed. We derive and calculate the exact expression for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hongbo Cheng

The Casimir effect for parallel plates satisfying the Dirichlet boundary condition in the context of effective QED coming from a six-dimensional Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution of the Abelian Higgs model with fermions coupled to gravity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-26 Hongbo Cheng

We study the influence of finite conductivity of metals on the Casimir effect. We put the emphasis on explicit theoretical evaluations which can help comparing experimental results with theory. The reduction of the Casimir force is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

We calculate exactly the Casimir force between a spherical particle and a plane, both with arbitrary dielectric properties, in the non-retarded limit. Using a Spectral Representation formalism, we show that the Casimir force of a sphere…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cecilia Noguea , Carlos E. Roman-Velazquez

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

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 measure the Casimir force between a gold sphere and a silicon plate with nanoscale, rectangular corrugations with depth comparable to the separation between the surfaces. In the proximity force approximation (PFA), both the top and…

In this paper, dedicated to the career of Tom Erber, we consider the Casimir interaction between weakly coupled bodies at nonzero temperature. For the case of semitransparent bodies, that is, ones described by delta-function potentials, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-18 Kimball A. Milton , Prachi Parashar , Jef Wagner , K. V. Shajesh

We compute Casimir interaction energies for the sphere-plate and cylinder-plate configuration induced by scalar-field fluctuations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Based on a high-precision calculation using worldline numerics, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Holger Gies , Klaus Klingmuller

We develop a mathematically precise framework for the Casimir effect. Our working hypothesis, verified in the case of parallel plates, is that only the regularization-independent Ramanujan sum of a given asymptotic series contributes to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 Luiz A. Manzoni , Walter F. Wreszinski

The Casimir force for charge-neutral, perfect conductors of non-planar geometric configurations have been investigated. The configurations are: (1) the plate-hemisphere, (2) the hemisphere-hemisphere and (3) the spherical shell. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sung Nae Cho

We study the finite temperature Casimir interaction between two concentric cylinders. When the separation between the cylinders is much smaller than the radii of the cylinders, the asymptotic expansions of the Casimir interaction are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. P. Teo

The standard expression of the high-temperature Casimir force between perfect conductors is obtained by imposing macroscopic boundary conditions on the electromagnetic field at metallic interfaces. This force is twice larger than that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. R. Buenzli , Ph. A. Martin

We find the joint effect of non-zero temperature and finite conductivity onto the Casimir force between real metals. Configurations of two parallel plates and a sphere (lens) above a plate are considered. Perturbation theory in two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Bordag , B. Geyer , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We develop a method to compute the Casimir effect for arbitrary geometries. The method is based on the string-inspired worldline approach to quantum field theory and its numerical realization with Monte-Carlo techniques. Concentrating on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Holger Gies , Kurt Langfeld , Laurent Moyaerts

The zero-temperature Casimir-Lifshitz force between two plates moving parallel to each other at arbitrary constant speed was found in [New J. Phys. 11, 033035 (2009)]. The solution is here generalized to the case where the plates are at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-11 T. G. Philbin , U. Leonhardt

The Casimir force between metallic plates made of realistic materials is evaluated for distances in the nanometer range. A spectrum over real frequencies is introduced and shows narrow peaks due to surface resonances (plasmon polaritons or…

The Casimir energies and pressures for a massless scalar field associated with $\delta$-function potentials in 1+1 and 3+1 dimensions are calculated. For parallel plane surfaces, the results are finite, coincide with the pressures…

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