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The Casimir Energy of a spherical surface characterized by its surface impedance is calculated. The material properties of the boundary are described by means of the Drude model, so that a generalization of previous results is obtained. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-12 Luigi Rosa , Lucia Trozzo

The Casimir energy is constructed for a system consisting of two semi-infinite slabs of anisotropic material. Each of them is characterized by bulk complex dielectric permittivity tensor and surface conductivity on the free boundary. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 N. Emelianova , I. V. Fialkovsky , N. Khusnutdinov

Many integral equation-based methods are available for problems of time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering from perfect electric conductors. Among the many challenges that arise in such calculations are the avoidance of spurious…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Felipe Vico , Leslie Greengard , Michael O'Neil , Manas Rachh

We have developed an exact, general method to compute Casimir interactions between a finite number of compact objects of arbitrary shape and separation. Here, we present details of the method for a scalar field to illustrate our approach in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Emig , N. Graham , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar

We evaluate the quantum correlators associated with the Maxwell field vacuum distorted by the presence of plane parallel material surfaces. Regularization is performed through the generalized zeta funtion technique. Results are applied to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Farina , J. J. Passos Sobrinho , A. C Tort

We present a new approach to three-dimensional electromagnetic scattering problems via fast isogeometric boundary element methods. Starting with an investigation of the theoretical setting around the electric field integral equation within…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Jürgen Dölz , Stefan Kurz , Sebastian Schöps , Felix Wolf

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

We given an elementary illustration of symmetry reduction for central force problems, drawing phase portraits of the reduced dynamics as the intersection of Casimir and energy level sets in three dimensions. These systems form a classic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Robert I McLachlan , Klas Modin , Olivier Verdier

This paper extends approach of our joint paper with K\"{a}hler and recent paper of the author, published in 2021, on problems of the static Maxwell system in three dimensional inhomogeneous media. Applied pseudoanalytic function theory…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Dmitry Bryukhov

The paper is concerned with the three-dimensional electromagnetic scattering from a large open rectangular cavity that is embedded in a perfectly electrically conducting infinite ground plane. By introducing a transparent boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Yanli Chen , Xue Jiang , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

The paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem for Maxwell's equations in three dimensional anisotropic periodic media. We study a new imaging functional for fast and stable reconstruction of the shape of anisotropic periodic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Trung Truong

We consider the Casimir interaction between a cylinder and a hollow cylinder, both conducting, with parallel axis and slightly different radii. The Casimir force, which vanishes in the coaxial situation, is evaluated for both small and…

An expression for the Casimir stress on arbitrary dispersive and lossy linear magnetodielectric matter at finite temperature, including left-handed material, is derived and applied to spherical systems. To cast the relevant part of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Raabe , Ludwig Knöll , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

We present a time-domain scheme for computing Casimir forces within the Maxwell stress tensor formalism, together with a specific realization using the finite-element-based discontinuous Galerkin time-domain method. The approach enables…

In confined systems near a continuous phase transition the long-ranged fluctuations of the corresponding order parameter are subject to boundary conditions. These constraints result in so-called critical Casimir forces acting as effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. F. Mohry , A. Maciołek , S. Dietrich

Mesoscopic particles immersed in a critical fluid experience long-range Casimir forces due to critical fluctuations. Using field theoretical methods, we investigate the Casimir interaction between two spherical particles and between a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Eisenriegler , U. Ritschel

We present a field-theoretic study of the critical Casimir force of the Ising universality class in a $d$-dimensional ${L_\parallel^{d-1} \times L}$ slab geometry with a finite aspect ratio $\rho = L/L_\parallel$ above, at, and below $T_c$.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-06 Volker Dohm

The Faddeev equation for three-body scattering at arbitrary energies is formulated in momentum space and directly solved in terms of momentum vectors without employing a partial wave decomposition. For identical bosons this results in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Liu , Ch. Elster , W. Gloeckle

We present a new integral equation for solving the Maxwell scattering problem against a perfect conductor. The very same algorithm also applies to sound-soft as well as sound-hard Helmholtz scattering, and in fact the latter two can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Andreas Rosén

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