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We study the Casimir problem as the limit of a conventional quantum field theory coupled to a smooth background. The Casimir energy diverges in the limit that the background forces the field to vanish on a surface. We show that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Graham , R. L. Jaffe , V. Khemani , M. Quandt , M. Scandurra , H. Weigel

We investigate the Casimir pressure between two parallel plates made of magnetic materials at nonzero temperature. It is shown that for real magnetodielectric materials only the magnetic properties of ferromagnets can influence the Casimir…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. L. Klimchitskaya , B. Geyer , V. M. Mostepanenko

We discuss recent experimental and theoretical results on the Casimir force between real material bodies made of different materials. Special attention is paid to calculations of the normal Casimir force acting perpendicular to the surface…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 G. L. Klimchitskaya

The zero-temperature Casimir-Lifshitz force between two plates moving parallel to each other at arbitrary constant speed was found in [New J. Phys. 11, 033035 (2009)]. The solution is here generalized to the case where the plates are at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-11 T. G. Philbin , U. Leonhardt

The Casimir pressure is calculated between parallel metal plates, containing the materials Au, Cu, or Al. Our motivation for making this calculation is the need of comparing theoretical predictions, based on the Lifshitz formula, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. S. Bentsen , R. Herikstad , S. Skriudalen , I. Brevik , J. S. Høye

We argue that the exactly computable, angle dependent, Casimir force between parallel plates with different directions of conductivity can be measured.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-31 O. Kenneth , S. Nussinov

Non-local boundary conditions have been considered in theoretical high-energy physics with emphasis on one-loop quantum cosmology, one-loop conformal anomalies, Bose-Einstein condensation models and spectral branes. In the present paper,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-08 Aram Saharian , Giampiero Esposito

The vacuum fluctuations give rise to a number of phenomena; however, the the Casimir Effect is arguably the most salient manifestation of the quantum vacuum. In its most basic form it is realized through the interaction of a pair of neutral…

General Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 Richard Obousy

In this paper I study the Casimir effect caused by a charged and massive scalar field that breaks Lorentz invariance in a CPT-even, aether-like manner. I investigate the case of a scalar field that satisfies Dirichlet or mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Andrea Erdas

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 for parallel plates in the presence of compactified universal extra dimensions within the frame of Kaluza-Klein theory is analyzed. Having regularized and discussed the expressions of Casimir force in the limit, we show…

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

We apply the generalized zeta function method to compute the Casimir energy and pressure between an unusual pair of parallel plates at finite temperature, namely: a perfectly conducting plate and an infinitely permeable one. The high and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. C. Santos , A. Tenorio , A. C. Tort

Two perfectly conducting, infinite parallel plates will restrict the electromagnetic vacuum, producing an attractive force. This phenomenon is known as the Casimir effect. Here we use electromagnetic field correlators to define the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Matthew J. Gorban , William D. Julius , Gerald B. Cleaver

The Casimir force between two perfectly reflecting parallel plates is considered. In a recent paper we presented generalised physical boundary conditions describing perfectly reflecting parallel plates. These boundary conditions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-15 Adam Stokes , Robert Bennett

After a review of the standard calculation of the Casimir force between two metallic plates at zero and non-zero temperatures, we present the study of microscopic models to determine the large-distance asymptotic force in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Ph. A. Martin , P. R. Buenzli

The Casimir effect in an inhomogeneous dielectric is investigated using Lifshitz's theory of electromagnetic vacuum energy. A permittivity function that depends continuously on one Cartesian coordinate is chosen, bounded on each side by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. G. Philbin , C. Xiong , U. Leonhardt

In this article, we study the finite temperature Casimir effect for scalar field with Robin boundary conditions on two parallel plates in a background spacetime that has a compact internal manifold with arbitrary geometry. The finite…

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

We compute Casimir forces in open geometries with edges, involving parallel as well as perpendicular semi-infinite plates. We focus on Casimir configurations which are governed by a unique dimensional scaling law with a universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Holger Gies , Klaus Klingmuller

We study the effects of the oscillating axion field present in our environment on the Casimir pressure between two metallic plates. We take into account the finite conductivity of the boundary plates and model the interactions between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-31 Philippe Brax , Pierre Brun

We investigate the fermionic Casimir effect for a Dirac field confined between two parallel plates with MIT bag boundary conditions in the presence of CPT-odd Lorentz-symmetry violation described by a constant axial background vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 A. Martín-Ruiz , M. B. Cruz , E. R. Bezerra de Mello