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The electromagnetic Casimir effect has a fermionic counterpart in topological insulators: Zero-point fluctuations of a massless Dirac fermion field mediate a force between magnetic scatterers. The Casimir force is insensitive to disorder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 C. W. J. Beenakker

This paper explores how magnetic fields affect the Casimir effect within the context of a simple quasi-1D interacting fermionic system. A novel phenomenon emerges, resulting from the interaction between external magnetic fields and boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-28 Antonino Flachi , Muneto Nitta , Satoshi Takada , Ryosuke Yoshii

We evaluate the fermionic Casimir effect associated with a massive fermion confined within a planar (d+1) dimensional slab-bag, on which MIT bag model boundary conditions of standard type, along a single spatial direction, are imposed. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Elizalde , F. C. Santos , A. C. Tort

In this work, we investigate the violation of Lorentz symmetry through the Casimir effect. The Casimir effect is one of the most intriguing aspects of modern physics, representing a macroscopic quantum-origin force between two neutral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-29 E. R. Bezerra de Mello , M. B. Cruz

When one studies the Casimir effect, the periodic (anti-periodic) boundary condition is usually taken to mimic a periodic (anti-periodic) structure for a scalar field living in a flat space with a non-Euclidean topology. However, there…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-07 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li , Xiang-Hua Zhai

The Casimir effect for {mass dimension one fermion fields (sometimes called Elko)} in $3+1$ dimension is obtained using Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is shown the existence of a repulsive force four times greater than the case of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-03 S. H. Pereira , J. M. Hoff da Silva , Rubia dos Santos

We review recent developments in the Casimir effect which arises in quantization volumes restricted by material boundaries and in spaces with non-Euclidean topology. The starting point of our discussion is the novel exact solution for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 V. M. Mostepanenko

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

We calculate the Casimir interaction between two short range scatterers embedded in a background of one dimensional massless Dirac fermions using a force operator approach. We obtain the force between two finite width square barriers, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dina Zhabinskaya , Jesse M. Kinder , E. J. Mele

The Casimir effect is a quantum phenomenon induced by the zero-point energy of relativistic fields confined in a finite-size system. This effect for photon fields has been studied for a long time, while the realization of counterparts for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki

We introduce a general, simple and effective method of evaluating the zero point energy of a quantum field under the influence of arbitrary boundary conditions imposed on the field on flat surfaces perpendicular to a chosen spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. C. Santos , A. C. Tort

We study the Casimir effect at finite temperature for a massless scalar field in the parallel plates geometry in N spatial dimensions, under various combinations of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on the plates. We show that in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Rubin , J. Feinberg , A. Mann , M. Revzen

The Casimir effect is an interesting phenomenon in the sense that it provides us with one of the primitive means of extracting the energy out of the vacuum. Since the original work of Casimir a number of works have appeared in extending the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Abe , J. Hashida , T. Muta , A. Purwanto

The aim of this work is to investigate the role played by the fermion mass and that of an external field on the fermionic Casimir energy density under S^1 X R^3 topology. Both twisted and untwisted spin connections are considered and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Tomazelli , L. C. Costa

In discussions of the cosmological constant, the Casimir effect is often invoked as decisive evidence that the zero point energies of quantum fields are "real''. On the contrary, Casimir effects can be formulated and Casimir forces can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. L. Jaffe

A generalization of the Bogoliubov transformation is developed to describe a space compactified fermionic field. The method is the fermionic counterpart of the formalism introduced earlier for bosons (J. C. da Silva, A. Matos Neto, F. C.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Queiroz , J. C. da Silva , F. C. Khanna , J. M. C. Malbouisson , M. Revzen , A. E. Santana

We study the Dirichlet Casimir effect for a complex scalar field on two noncommutative spatial coordinates plus a commutative time. To that end, we introduce Dirichlet-like boundary conditions on a curve contained in the spatial plane, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. D. Fosco , G. A. Moreno

We provide a review of both new experimental and theoretical developments in the Casimir effect. The Casimir effect results from the alteration by the boundaries of the zero-point electromagnetic energy. Unique to the Casimir force is its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , U. Mohideen , V. M. Mostepanenko

In this paper, we study the Casimir effect in a curved spacetime described by gravitational actions quadratic in the curvature. In particular, we consider the dynamics of a massless scalar field confined between two nearby plates and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-04 Luca Buoninfante , Gaetano Lambiase , Luciano Petruzziello , Antonio Stabile

We consider the Casimir interaction between two spheres corresponding to massless Dirac fields with MIT-bag boundary conditions. Using operator approach, we derive the TGTG-formula for the Casimir interaction energy between the two spheres.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 L. P. Teo