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We study the Casimir energy of a massless scalar field that obeys Dirichlet boundary conditions on a hyperboloid facing a plate. We use the optical approximation including the first six reflections and compare the results with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Schroeder , A. Scardicchio , R. L. Jaffe

The Casimir energy for a massless scalar field between the closely spaced two concentric D-dimensional (for D>3) spheres is calculated by using the mode summation with contour integration in the complex plane of eigenfrequencies and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Mustafa Özcan

We investigate combined effects of gravitational field and spatial topology on the fermionic condensate (FC) for a massive Dirac field in locally anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime with a part of spatial dimensions compactified to a torus. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-22 T. A. Petrosyan , A. A. Grigoryan , A. A. Saharian

We calculate the Casimir energy of a massless scalar field confined between two nearby parallel plates formed by ideal uncharged conductors, placed tangentially to the surface of a sphere with mass M and radius R. To this end, we take into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-06 C. R. Muniz , V. B. Bezerra , M. S. Cunha

Zero-point fluctuations in quantum fields give rise to observable forces between material bodies, the so-called Casimir forces. In these lectures I present the theory of the Casimir effect, primarily formulated in terms of Green's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kimball A. Milton

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

In this paper, the two-dimensional Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole is considered as a system of the Casimir type. In this background the Casimir effect for the massless Dirac field is discussed. The massless Dirac field is confined…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Xin-Qin Gao , Jian-Yang Zhu

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

We study the Casimir effect for free massless scalar fields propagating on a two-dimensional cylinder with a metric that admits a change of signature from Lorentzian to Euclidean. We obtain a nonzero pressure, on the hypersurfaces of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Darabi , M. R. Setare

The Casimir forces on two parallel plates in conformally flat de Sitter background due to conformally coupled massless scalar field satisfying mixed boundary conditions on the plates is investigated. In the general case of mixed boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 M. R. Setare

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

This study explores the finite temperature Casimir effect for a massive spinor field in cosmic dispiration spacetime, formed by the combination of a cosmic string and a screw dislocation using the generalized zeta function regularization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Joás Venâncio , Herondy Mota , Azadeh Mohammadi

The Casimir effect for parallel plates satisfying the Dirichlet boundary condition in the context of effective QED coming from a six-dimensional Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution of the Abelian Higgs model with fermions coupled to gravity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-26 Hongbo Cheng

Zero-point fluctuations in quantum fields give rise to observable forces between material bodies, the so-called Casimir forces. In this lecture I present some results of the theory of the Casimir effect, primarily formulated in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Kimball A. Milton

The primary focus of this dissertation is the study of the Casimir effect and the possibility that this phenomenon may serve as a mechanism to mediate higher dimensional stability, and also as a possible mechanism for creating a small but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-26 Richard K. Obousy

The Casimir effect for rectangular boxes has been studied for several decades. But there are still some points unclear. Recently, there are new developments related to this topic, including the demonstration of the equivalence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-03 Xiang-Hua Zhai , Rui-Hui Lin , Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li

The vacuum energies corresponding to massive Dirac fields with the boundary conditions of the MIT bag model are obtained. The calculations are done with the fields occupying the regions inside and outside the bag, separately. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Elizalde , M. Bordag , K. Kirsten

We study massless Dirac fields in a portion of $AdS_3$, where one of the boundaries coincides with the "boundary at infinity" of the Anti-de-Sitter space. We evaluate the vacuum energy arising when the local boundary conditions dictated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-30 C. G. Beneventano , E. M. Santangelo

This paper studies the Casimir effect due to fractional massless Klein-Gordon field confined to parallel plates. A new kind of boundary condition called fractional Neumann condition which involves vanishing fractional derivatives of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-31 C. H. Eab , S. C. Lim , L. P. Teo

We obtain the Casimir effect for the massless scalar field in one dimension based on the analogy between the quantum field and the continuum limit of an infinite set of coupled harmonical oscillators.

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Farkas , N. Nicolaevici