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It is shown that in $3+1$ dimensions, a constant magnetic field is a catalyst of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, leading to generating a fermion mass even at the weakest attractive interaction between fermions. The essence of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-15 V. P. Gusynin , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

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 discuss several approaches to determine the Casimir force in inertial frames of reference in different dimensions. On an example of a simple model involving mirrors in Rindler spacetime we show that Casimir's and Lifschitz's methods are…

We consider a real massless scalar field in 3+1 dimensions satisfying a Robin boundary condition at a nonrelativistic moving mirror. Considering vacuum as the initial field state, we compute explicitly the number of particles created per…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Andreson L. C. Rego , B. W. Mintz , C. Farina , Danilo T. Alves

We theoretically investigate the Casimir effect originating from Dirac fields in finite-density matter under a magnetic field. In particular, we focus on quark fields in the magnetic dual chiral density wave (MDCDW) phase as a possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-01 Daisuke Fujii , Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki

The infrared behavior of quantum field theories confined in bounded domains is strongly dependent on the shape and structure of space boundaries. The most significant physical effect arises in the behaviour of the vacuum energy. The Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-16 M. Asorey , J. M. Munoz-Castaneda

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

We calculate the Casimir force between parallel plates for a massless scalar field. When adding the energy of normal modes, we avoid infinities by using a discrete spacetime lattice; however, this approach proves ineffective as long as both…

We provide a Quantum Field Theory derivation of Lifshitz formula for the Casimir force due to a fluctuating real scalar field in $d+1$ dimensions. The field is coupled to two imperfect, thick, plane mirrors, which are modeled by background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Ccapa Ttira , C. D. Fosco , F. D. Mazzitelli

The Casimir effect giving rise to an attractive force between the configuration boundaries that confine the massless scalar field is rigorously proven for odd dimensional hypercube with the Dirichlet boundary conditions and different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Xin-zhou Li , Xiang-hua Zhai

We have developed an exact, general method to compute Casimir interactions between a finite number of compact objects of arbitrary shape and separation. Here, we present details of the method for a scalar field to illustrate our approach in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Emig , N. Graham , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar

Delving into spring-like helical configurations, such as DNA within our cells, motivates physicists to inquire about the effects of such structures in the realm of quantum field theory, specifically unraveling their manifestation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-14 M. A. Valuyan

In the present study, the zeroth- and first-order radiative correction of the Casimir energy for massive and massless scalar fields, confined with mixed boundary conditions (Dirichlet- Neumann) between two parallel plates in $\phi^4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-18 M. A. Valuyan

The Casimir energy or stress due to modes in a D-dimensional volume subject to TM (mixed) boundary conditions on a bounding spherical surface is calculated. Both interior and exterior modes are included. Together with earlier results found…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Kimball A. Milton

We calculate the Casimir energy for the configuration of two parallel plates coupled to nonabelian gauge fields with a Yang-Mills action. We consider both 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions in the manifestly gauge-invariant formalism we have pursued…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Dimitra Karabali , Antonina Maj , V. P. Nair

The microscopic theory of the Casimir effect in the dielectric is studied in the framework when absorption is realized via a reservoir modeled by a set of oscillators with continuously distributed frquencies with the aim to see if the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. A. Braun

We study the Casimir effect for a three dimensional system of ideal free massive Bose gas in a slab geometry with Zaremba and anti-periodic boundary conditions. It is found that for these type of boundary conditions the resulting Casimir…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-09 Mir Mehedi Faruk , Shovon Biswas

A new method based on the Monte-Carlo calculation on the lattice is proposed to study the Casimir effect in the compact lattice U(1) theory with Wilson action. We have studied the standard Casimir problem with two parallel plane surfaces…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-01-15 Oleg Pavlovsky , Maxim Ulybyshev

We calculate the energy-momentum tensor due to electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations between two parallel hyperplanes in more than four dimensions, considering both metallic and MIT boundary conditions. Using the axial gauge, the problem can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Alnes , K. Olaussen , F. Ravndal , I. K. Wehus

We derive a general expression for the Casimir energy corresponding to two flat parallel mirrors in d+1 dimensions, described by nonlocal interaction potentials. For a real scalar field, the interaction with the mirrors is implemented by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 C. D. Fosco , E. Losada