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We compute Casimir forces in open geometries with edges, involving parallel as well as perpendicular semi-infinite plates. We focus on Casimir configurations which are governed by a unique dimensional scaling law with a universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Holger Gies , Klaus Klingmuller

The zeta function regularization technique is used to study the finite temperature Casimir effect for a charged and massless scalar field confined between parallel plates and satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions at the plates. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-13 Andrea Erdas , Kevin P. Seltzer

The Casimir force $\cF = -\frac{\pi^2\hbar c}{240a^4}$, which attracts to each other two perfectly conducting parallel plates separated by the distance $a$ in vacuum, is one of the blueprints of the reality of vacuum fluctuations. Following…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Mikhail Altaisky , Natalia Kaputkina

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 investigate the thermal Casimir effect of a massless scalar field for two parallel plates moving in the equatorial orbit in Kerr space-time. Under the assumption that the typical cavity size is much smaller than the orbital radius,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Anwei Zhang

We construct various self-similar configurations using parallel $\delta$-function plates and show that it is possible to evaluate the Casimir interaction energy of these configurations using the idea of self-similarity alone. We restrict…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-14 K. V. Shajesh , Iver Brevik , Inés Cavero-Peláez , Prachi Parashar

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 derive analytic expressions for the Helmholtz free energy, Casimir force, and Casimir entropy for both one-dimensional and three-dimensional scalar fields with Dirichlet boundary conditions at finite temperature. We investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Liang Chen , Yu-Jing Wang , Sheng-Yan Li

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

The paper is based on the Bachelor Thesis defended this year in ITEP, Moscow. This is the extended version of [arXiv:1707.02242] and contains a lot more technical details of the calculations. We consider (1+1)-dimensional massless scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-11 Sergey Alexeev

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

In this paper we examine the Casimir effect for charged fields in presence of external magnetic field. We consider scalar field (connected with spinless particles) and the Dirac field (connected with 1/2-spin particles). In both cases we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcin Ostrowski

The Casimir effect is considered a great triumph of Quantum Field Theory. Originally the Casimir energy was investigated considering the vacuum fluctuation associated with electromagnetic field; however it has also been analyzed considering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 E. R. Bezerra de Mello , Herondy F. Mota

We study the $\frac{\lambda}{4!}\phi^{4}$ massless scalar field theory in a four-dimensional Euclidean space, where all but one of the coordinates are unbounded. We are considering Dirichlet boundary conditions in two hyperplanes, breaking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Aparicio Alcalde , G. Flores Hidalgo , N. F. Svaiter

Several years ago we demonstrated that the Casimir energy for perfectly reflecting and imperfectly reflecting parallel plates gravitated normally, that is, obeyed the equivalence principle. At that time the divergences in the theory were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-08 K. A. Milton , K. V. Shajesh , S. A. Fulling , Prachi Parashar

We consider the high temperature limit of the Casimir interaction between a Dirichlet sphere and a Dirichlet plate due to the vacuum fluctuations of a scalar field in $(D+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The high temperature leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 L. P. Teo

Within the framework of the (3+1)-dimensional Lorentz-violating extended electrodynamics including the CPT-odd Chern-Simons term, we consider the electromagnetic field between the two parallel perfectly conducting plates. We find the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 O. G. Kharlanov , V. Ch. Zhukovsky

A Lorentz symmetry violation aether-type theoretical model is considered to investigate the Casimir effect and the generation of topological mass associated with a self-interacting massive scalar fields obeying Dirichlet, Newman and mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-12 M. B. Cruz , E. R. Bezerra de Mello , H. F. Santana Mota

The Casimir problem is usually posed as the response of a fluctuating quantum field to externally imposed boundary conditions. In reality, however, no interaction is strong enough to enforce a boundary condition on all frequencies of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Graham , R. L. Jaffe , V. Khemani , M. Quandt , M. Scandurra , H. Weigel

We consider the thermal Casimir effect in systems of parallel plates coupled to a mass-less free field theory via quadratic interaction terms which suppress (i) the field on the plates (ii) the gradient of the field in the plane of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-27 David S. Dean