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Casimir pistons are models in which finite Casimir forces can be calculated without any suspect renormalizations. It has been suggested that such forces are always attractive, but we present several counterexamples, notably a simple type of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-18 S. A. Fulling , L. Kaplan , J. H. Wilson

We consider a massless scalar field obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions on the walls of a two-dimensional L x b rectangular box, divided by a movable partition (piston) into two compartments of dimensions a x b and (L-a) x b. We compute…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Cavalcanti

Recently, a method based on stochastic quantization has been proposed to compute the Casimir force and its fluctuations in arbitrary geometries. It relies on the spectral decomposition of the Laplacian operator in the given geometry. Both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto

Casimir forces are a manifestation of the change in the zero-point energy of the vacuum caused by the insertion of boundaries. We show how the Casimir force can be computed by consideration of the vacuum fluctuations that are suppressed by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-13 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley

A one-dimensional Casimir piston for massless scalar fields obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions in high-dimensional spacetimes within the frame of Kaluza-Klein theory is analyzed. We derive and calculate the exact expression for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hongbo Cheng

Using a multidimensional cut-off technique, we obtain expressions for the cut-off dependent part of the vacuum energy for parallelepiped geometries in any spatial dimension d. The cut-off part yields nonrenormalizable hypersurface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-03 Ariel Edery , Ilana MacDonald

Our preceding paper introduced a method to compute Casimir forces in arbitrary geometries and for arbitrary materials that was based on a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) scheme. In this manuscript, we focus on the efficient…

We compute the finite temperature Casimir energy for massive scalar field with general curvature coupling subject to Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on the walls of a closed cylinder with arbitrary cross section, located in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 L. P. Teo

In this paper, the finite temperature Casimir force acting on a two-dimensional Casimir piston due to electromagnetic field is computed. It was found that if mixed boundary conditions are assumed on the piston and its opposite wall, then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-19 L. P. Teo

We study the Casimir force acting on a conducting piston with arbitrary cross section. We find the exact solution for a rectangular cross section and the first three terms in the asymptotic expansion for small height to width ratio when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. P. Hertzberg , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar , A. Scardicchio

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

Casimir interactions between macroscopic objects are strongly influenced by their geometrical features as shape and orientation as well as by their material properties. The effect of geometry is commonly obtained from the proximity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thorsten Emig

We reexamine the Casimir effect for the rectangular cavity with two or three equal edges in the presence of compactified universal extra dimension. We derive the expressions for the Casimir energy and discuss the nature of Casimir force. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Hongbo Cheng

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

Quantum fluctuations give rise to Casimir forces between two parallel conducting plates, the magnitude of which increases monotonically as the separation decreases. By introducing nanoscale gratings to the surfaces, recent advances have…

We investigate the Casimir effect in the context of a nontrivial topology by means of a generalized Matsubara formalism. This is performed in the context of a scalar field in $D$ Euclidean spatial dimensions with $d$ compactified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-05 Andreson L. C. Rego , C. A. Linhares , A. P. C. Malbouisson

In this paper we show how the stochastic quantization method developed by Parisi and Wu can be used to obtain Casimir forces. Both quantum and thermal fluctuations are taken into account by a Langevin equation for the field. The method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto

An exact calculation of electromagnetic scattering from a perfectly conducting parabolic cylinder is employed to compute Casimir forces in several configurations. These include interactions between a parabolic cylinder and a plane, two…

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

We consider the Casimir energy due to a massless scalar field in a geometry of an infinite wedge closed by a Dirichlet circular cylinder, where the wedge is formed by $\delta$-function potentials, so-called semitransparent boundaries. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-07 Kimball A. Milton , Jef Wagner , Klaus Kirsten