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We study the finite temperature Casimir interaction between a cylinder and a plate using the exact formula derived from the Matsubara representation and the functional determinant representation. We consider the scalar field with Dirichlet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 L. P. Teo

In this paper we utilize $\zeta$-function regularization techniques in order to compute the Casimir force for massless scalar fields subject to Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions in the setting of the conical piston. The piston…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-14 Guglielmo Fucci , Klaus Kirsten

We evaluate the Casimir energy and force for a massive scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter, subject to Robin boundary conditions on two codimension-one parallel plates, located on a $(D+1)$-dimensional background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-10 E. Elizalde , S. D. Odintsov , A. A. Saharian

We consider the finite temperature Casimir effect of a massive fermionic field confined between two parallel plates, with MIT bag boundary conditions on the plates. The background spacetime is $M^{p+1}\times T^q$ which has $q$ dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 F. S. Khoo , L. P. Teo

In this article, we derive the formula for the Casimir force acting on a piston made of real material moving inside a perfectly conducting rectangular box. It is shown that by taking suitable limits, one recovers the formula for the Casimir…

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

We evaluate the Casimir energy and force for a massive fermionic field in the geometry of two parallel plates on background of Minkowski spacetime with an arbitrary number of toroidally compactified spatial dimensions. The bag boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-08 S. Bellucci , A. A. Saharian

We discuss the Casimir effect for massless scalar fields subject to the Dirichlet boundary conditions on the parallel plates at finite temperature in the presence of one fractal extra compactified dimension. We obtain the Casimir energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Hongbo Cheng

The Casimir effect arises when long-ranged fluctuations are geometrically confined between two surfaces, leading to a macroscopic force. Traditionally, these forces have been observed in quantum systems and near critical points in classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-19 Justin C. Burton , Juan-José Liétor-Santos

In this article, we derive the finite temperature Casimir force acting on a pair of parallel plates due to a massless scalar field propagating in the bulk of a higher dimensional brane model. In contrast to previous works which used…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-23 L. P. Teo

The Casimir effect, which predicts the emergence of an attractive force between two parallel, highly reflecting plates in vacuum, plays a vital role in various fields of physics, from quantum field theory and cosmology to nanophotonics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Daniel Hodgson , Christopher Burgess , M. Basil Altaie , Almut Beige , Robert Purdy

We study the electromagnetic Casimir interaction of a compact object contained inside a closed cavity of another compact object. We express the interaction energy in terms of the objects' scattering matrices and translation matrices that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Saad Zaheer , Sahand Jamal Rahi , Thorsten Emig , Robert L. Jaffe

A piston is introduced into a spherical lune Casimir cavity turning it into two adjacent lunes separated by the (hemispherical) piston. On the basis of zeta function regularisation, the vacuum energy of the arrangement is finite for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-11 J. S. Dowker

We have computed numerically the Casimir force between two identical pistons inside a very long cylinder, considering different shapes for the pistons. The pistons can be considered as quantum billiards, whose spectrum determines the vacuum…

Two thin conducting, electrically neutral, parallel plates forming an isolated system in vacuum exert attracting force on each other, whose origin is the quantum electrodynamical interaction. This theoretical hypothesis, known as Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrzej Herdegen

We consider the finite temperature Casimir effect between two concentric spheres due to the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field in the $(D+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Different combinations of perfectly conducting and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-08 L. P. Teo

In this work we analyze the Casimir energy and force for a {\it thick} piston configuration. This study is performed by utilizing the spectral zeta function regularization method. The results we obtain for the Casimir energy and force…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-26 Guglielmo Fucci

Casimir effect is the attractive force which acts between two plane parallel, closely spaced, uncharged, metallic plates in vacuum. This phenomenon was predicted theoretically in 1948 and reliably investigated experimentally only in recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We study the Casimir force in piston-like geometries semiclassically. The force on the piston is finite and physical, but to leading semiclassical approximation depends strongly on the shape of the surrounding cavity. Whereas this force is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-24 Martin Schaden , Liviu Mateescu

We find the exact Casimir force between a plate and a cylinder, a geometry intermediate between parallel plates, where the force is known exactly, and the plate--sphere, where it is known at large separations. The force has an unexpectedly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Emig , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar , A. Scardicchio

We analyze the thermodynamic Casimir effect occurring in a gas of non-interacting bosons confined by two parallel walls with a strongly anisotropic dispersion inherited from an underlying lattice. In the direction perpendicular to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-01 Marek Napiórkowski , Pawel Jakubczyk