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As a continuation of the work in \cite{mns}, we discuss the Casimir effect for a massless bulk scalar field in a 4D toy model of a 6D warped flux compactification model,to stabilize the volume modulus. The one-loop effective potential for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Emilio Elizalde , Masato Minamitsuji , Wade Naylor

We use a functional approach to calculate the Casimir energy due to Dirac fields in interaction with thin, flat, parallel walls, which implement imperfect bag-like boundary conditions. These are simulated by the introduction of delta-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. D. Fosco , E. L. Losada

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

We consider the Casimir interaction between two spheres at zero and finite temperature, for both scalar fields and electromagnetic fields. Of particular interest is the asymptotic expansions of the Casimir free energy when the distance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 L. P. Teo

Within the scattering theoretical approach, the Casimir force is obtained numerically by an evaluation of the round trip of an electromagnetic wave between the objects involved. Recently [Hartmann M et al. 2017, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 043901]…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Michael Hartmann , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Paulo A. Maia Neto

In confined systems near a continuous phase transition the long-ranged fluctuations of the corresponding order parameter are subject to boundary conditions. These constraints result in so-called critical Casimir forces acting as effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. F. Mohry , A. Maciołek , S. Dietrich

Quantum fluctuations of massless scalar fields represented by quantum fluctuations of the quasiparticle vacuum in a zero-temperature dilute Bose-Einstein condensate may well provide the first experimental arena for measuring the Casimir…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ariel Edery

In this study, we examine the role of the repulsive Casimir force in counteracting the gravitational contraction of a thin spherically symmetric shell. Our main focus is to explore the possibility of achieving a stable balanced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Leonardo Bellinato Giacomelli , Benjamin Koch , Iva Lovrekovic , Angel Rincon

The Casimir effect is induced by the interplay between photon fields and boundary conditions, and in particular, photon fields modified in axion electrodynamics may lead to the sign-flipping of the Casimir energy. We propose a theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-06 Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki

We consider the vacuum energy of the electromagnetic field in the background of spherically symmetric dielectrics, subject to a cut-off frequency in the dispersion relations. The effect of this frequency dependent boundary condition between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Falomir , K. Rébora

We use a functional approach to the Casimir effect in order to evaluate the exact vacuum energy for a real scalar field in $d+1$ dimensions, in the presence of backgrounds that, in a particular limit, impose Dirichlet boundary conditions on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

A detailed analysis of the finite-size effects on the bulk critical behaviour of the $d$-dimensional mean spherical model confined to a film geometry with finite thickness $L$ is reported. Along the finite direction different kinds of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-12 H. Chamati

Total vacuum energy of some quantized fields in conical space with additional boundary conditions is calculated. These conditions are imposed on a cylindrical surface which is coaxial with the symmetry axis of conical space. The explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-22 V. V. Nesterenko , I. G. Pirozhenko

We study the Casimir effect of a membrane embedded in 2+1 dimensions flat cone generated by a massive particle located at the origin of the coordinate system. The flat cone is an exact solution of the nonprojectable Horava theory, similar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-20 Claudio Bórquez , Byron Droguett

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

A multiple scattering formulation is used to calculate the force, arising from fluctuating scalar fields, between distinct bodies described by $\delta$-function potentials, so-called semitransparent bodies. (In the limit of strong coupling,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kimball A. Milton , Jef Wagner

We compute the Casimir energy between an unusual pair of parallel plates at finite temperature, namely, a perfectely conducting plate ($\epsilon\to\infty$) and an infinitely permeable one ($\mu\to\infty$) by applying the generalized zeta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 F. C. Santos , A. Tenório , A. C. Tort

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

The zeta-function regularization method is used to evaluate the renormalized effective action for massless conformally coupling scalar field propagating in a closed Friedman spacetime perturbed by a small rotation. To the second order of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Wung-Hong Huang

We study the Casimir energy of four-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories in the context of the rigid limit of new minimal supergravity. Firstly, revisiting the computation of the localized partition function on $S^1\times S^3$, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-09 Jakob Lorenzen , Dario Martelli