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In this thesis, we consider fermion systems on square lattice spaces with a curved domain-wall mass term. In a similar way to the flat case, we find massless and chiral states localized at the wall. In the case of $S^1$ and $S^2$…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-04-02 Shoto Aoki

The Casimir effect is a general phenomenon in physics, which arises when the vacuum fluctuation of an arbitrary field is modified by static or slowly varying boundary. However, its spin version is rarely addressed, mainly due to the fact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-11 Z. Z. Du , H. M. Liu , Y. L. Xie , Q. H. Wang , J. -M. Liu

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

A few years ago some attention has been given to a fermionic action on the lattice, with a Wilson-like term which is chirally invariant but breaks the hypercubic space-time lattice symmetry. This action describes two Dirac fields in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Mario Pernici

We calculate the Casimir interaction between two short range scatterers embedded in a background of one dimensional massless Dirac fermions using a force operator approach. We obtain the force between two finite width square barriers, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dina Zhabinskaya , Jesse M. Kinder , E. J. Mele

We show that the vacuum ground state energy for massive scalars on a 1-dim L-sites periodic lattice can be interpreted as the thermodynamic free energy of particles at temperature 1/L governed by the Arutyunov-Frolov mirror Hamiltonian.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-20 Michael Pawellek

We show that the Casimir effect may lead to a deconfinement phase transition induced by the presence of boundaries in confining gauge theories. Using first-principle numerical simulations we demonstrate this phenomenon in the simplest case…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-11-22 M. N. Chernodub , V. A. Goy , A. V. Molochkov

We investigate the role of surface plasmons in the electromagnetic Casimir effect at finite temperature, including situations out of global thermal equilibrium. The free energy is calculated analytically and expanded for different regimes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-05 F. Intravaia , H. Haakh , C. Henkel

The Casimir effect refers to the existence of a macroscopic force between conducting plates in vacuum due to quantum fluctuations of fields. These forces play an important role, among other things, in the design of nano-scale mechanical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Dimitra Karabali

When one studies the Casimir effect, the periodic (anti-periodic) boundary condition is usually taken to mimic a periodic (anti-periodic) structure for a scalar field living in a flat space with a non-Euclidean topology. However, there…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-07 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li , Xiang-Hua Zhai

The formulation of massless relativistic fermions in lattice gauge theories is hampered by the fundamental problem of species doubling, namely, the rise of spurious fermions modifying the underlying physics. A suitable tailoring of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-11-15 A. Bermudez , L. Mazza , M. Rizzi , N. Goldman , M. Lewenstein , M. A. Martin-Delgado

The Casimir effect, originating from quantum and thermal fluctuations, is well known for inducing forces between closely spaced surfaces. When these surfaces are optically anisotropic, these interactions can produce a Casimir torque that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Benjamin Spreng , Jeremy N. Munday

The Casimir effect arises not only in the presence of material boundaries but also in space with nontrivial topology. In this paper, we choose a topology of the flat $(D+1)$-dimensional spacetime, which causes the helix boundary condition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li

We give an overview of the work done during the past ten years on the Casimir interaction in electronic topological materials, our focus being solids which possess surface or bulk electronic band structures with nontrivial topologies, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Bing-Sui Lu

The Casimir densities are investigated for a massive spinor field in de Sitter spacetime with an arbitrary number of toroidally compactified spatial dimensions. The vacuum expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor is presented in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-12 A. A. Saharian

We theoretically investigate the impact of the anomalous magnetic moment (AMM) of Dirac fermions on the fermionic Casimir effect under magnetic fields. We formulate it as an extension of the well-known Lifshitz formula. From our formula, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 Daisuke Fujii , Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki

In the present work, we study a fermionic Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) theory with a CPT-even extension and analyze its impact on the Casimir effect under the MIT bag boundary condition model in a low-dimensional setting, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 K. E. L. de Farias , M. A. Anacleto , Iver Brevik , F. A. Brito , E. Passos , Amilcar Queiroz , João R. L. Santos

The low-energy quasi-excitations in graphene are known to be described as Dirac fermions in 2+1 dimensions. Adopting field-theoretical approach we investigate the interaction of these quasi-particles with 3+1 dimensional electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-18 M. Bordag , I. V. Fialkovsky , D. M. Gitman , D. V. Vassilevich

We calculate the Casimir force for a fermionic quantum field in a piston geometry with three parallel plates. The fermion satisfies bag boundary conditions on the plates and the spacetime is assumed to have compact extra dimensions. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-13 V. K. Oikonomou

The study of superfluid fermion pairs in a periodic potential has important ramifications for understanding superconductivity in crystalline materials. Using cold atomic gases, various condensed matter models can be studied in a highly…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 J. K. Chin , D. E. Miller , Y. Liu , C. Stan , W. Setiawan , C. Sanner , K. Xu , W. Ketterle