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We discuss the scalar analogue of the Casimir-Polder force between a sphere and a uniaxially corrugated surface with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Presenting a formulation that is nonperturbative in the height profile of the surface, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Babette Döbrich , Maarten DeKieviet , Holger Gies

In this paper we compute the leading order of the Casimir energy for a free massless scalar field confined in a sphere in three spatial dimensions, with the Dirichlet boundary condition. When one tabulates all of the reported values of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-27 M. A. Valuyan , S. S. Gousheh

The effect of edges and apertures on the Casimir energy of an arrangement of plates and boundaries can be calculated in terms of an effective nonlocal lower-dimensional field theory that lives on the boundary. This formalism has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-05 Dimitra Karabali , V. P. Nair

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 compute an analog Casimir effect in a one-dimensional spinless Luttinger liquid confined to a segment in the presence of a nearly-impenetrable partition dividing the segment into two compartments. The Casimir interaction is found to be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley , Michael Timmins

The thermal Casimir effect in ideal metal rectangular boxes is considered using the method of zeta functional regularization. The renormalization procedure is suggested which provides the finite expression for the Casimir free energy in any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 B. Geyer , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We compute the vacuum energy of a scalar field rotating with angular velocity $\Omega$ on a disk of radius $R$ and with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The rotation is introduced by a metric obtained by a Galilean transformation from a rest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-09 M. Bordag , I. G. Pirozhenko

This paper gives a brief review on the recent work on fractional Klein-Gordon fields, in particular on the Casimir effect associated to fractional Klein-Gordon fields in various geometries and boundary conditions. New results on Casimir…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 S. C. Lim , L. P. Teo

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

A new method based on the Monte-Carlo calculation on the lattice is proposed to study the Casimir effect in the compact lattice U(1) theory with Wilson action. We have studied the standard Casimir problem with two parallel plane surfaces…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-01-15 Oleg Pavlovsky , Maxim Ulybyshev

We study the Casimir effect in the framework of Standard Model Extension (SME). Employing the weak field approximation, the vacuum energy density {\epsilon} and the pressure for a massless scalar field confined between two nearby parallel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-29 Massimo Blasone , Gaetano Lambiase , Luciano Petruzziello , Antonio Stabile

The Casimir surface force density F on a dielectric dilute spherical ball of radius a, surrounded by a vacuum, is calculated at zero temperature. We treat (n-1) (n being the refractive index) as a small parameter. The dispersive properties…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-14 Iver Brevik , Valery Marachevsky

The Casimir stress on two concentric spherical shell in de Sitter background for massless scalar field is calculated. The scalar field satisfies Dirichlet boundary conditions on the spheres. The metric is written in conformally flat form to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. Setare

For the Casimir piston filled with an inhomogeneous medium, the Casimir energy is regularized and expressed with cylinder kernel coefficients by using the first-order perturbation theory. When the refraction index of the medium is smoothly…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Fanglin Bao , Bin Luo , Sailing He

We present a new Monte Carlo method to calculate Casimir forces acting on objects in a near-critical fluid, considering the two basic cases of a wall and a sphere embedded in a two-dimensional Ising medium. During the simulation, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-19 Hendrik Hobrecht , Alfred Hucht

The Casimir energy of a massless scalar field is semiclassically given by contributions due to classical periodic rays. The required subtractions in the spectral density are determined explicitly. The so defined semiclassical Casimir energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Schaden

The vacuum expectation values of the energy--momentum tensor are investigated for massless scalar fields satisfying Dicichlet or Neumann boundary conditions, and for the electromagnetic field with perfect conductor boundary conditions on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 R. M. Avagyan , A. A. Saharian , A. H. Yeranyan

The Casimir energy is calculated in one-, two-, and three-dimensional spaces for the field with generalized coordinates and momenta satisfying the deformed Poisson brackets leading to the minimal length.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ivan Vakarchuk

A general calculation of Casimir energies --in an arbitrary number of dimensions-- for massless quantized fields in spherically symmetric cavities is carried out. All the most common situations, including scalar and spinor fields, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Guido Cognola , Emilio Elizalde , Klaus Kirsten

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sung Nae Cho