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We study the Dynamical Casimir Effect resulting from the oscillatory motion of either one or two flat semitransparent mirrors, coupled to a quantum real and massless scalar field. Our approach is based on a perturbative evaluation, in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 C. D. Fosco , A. Giraldo , F. D. Mazzitelli

We investigate the vacuum and thermal fluctuations of a neutral massless scalar field living in Minkowski spacetime and interacting with a finite number of point-like obstacles, modelled by zero-range potentials. The system is described…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Davide Fermi , Marco Gurgoglione

We discuss and analyze the properties of Casimir forces acting between nonreciprocal objects in thermal equilibrium. By starting from the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and splitting the force into those arising from individual sources, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky , Noah Graham , Mehran Kardar , Matthias Krüger

We present a study of the static and dynamical Casimir effects for a quantum field theory satisfying generalized Robin boundary condition, of a kind that arises naturally within the context of quantum circuits. Since those conditions may…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

A noncommutative complex scalar field, satisfying the deformed canonical commutation relations proposed by Carmona et al. [27]-[31], is constructed. Using these noncommutative deformed canonical commutation relations, a model describing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-19 Farid Khelili

The Casimir effect, arising from vacuum quantum fluctuations, plays a fundamental role in the development of modern quantum electrodynamics. In parallel, the field of condensed matter has flourished through the discovery of various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Zixuan Dai , Qing-Dong Jiang

In this letter we consider the fluctuation induced force exerted between two plates separated by a distance $L$ in a fluid with a temperature gradient. We predict that, for a range of distances $L$, this non-equilibrium force is anomalously…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-13 T. R. Kirkpatrick , J. M. Ortiz de Zárate , J. V. Sengers

The Casimir effect describes the attractive force arising due to quantum fluctuations of the vacuum electromagnetic field between closely spaced conducting plates. Traditionally, zeta-regularization is employed in calculations to address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Ching-Hsuan Yen

With a modulated oscillator, we study several effects of quantum fluctuations far from thermal equilibrium. One of them is quantum heating, where quantum fluctuations lead to a finite-width distribution of a resonantly modulated oscillator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Vittorio Peano , M I Dykman

We consider the quantum fluctuations of the Casimir-Polder force between a neutral atom and a perfectly conducting wall in the ground state of the system. In order to obtain the atom-wall force fluctuation we first define an operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 R. Messina , R. Passante

Transmission-line waveguides can mediate long-range fluctuation-induced forces between neutral objects. We present two approaches for the description of these forces between electric components embedded in transmission-line circuits. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Ephraim Shahmoon

The energy momentum tensor is used to introduce the Casimir force of the massive scalar field acting on a nonpenetrating surface. This expression can be used to evaluate the vacuum force by employing the appropriate field operators. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-05 Sonia Mobassem

Effects due to vacuum fluctuations in a semi-classical model of a massless scalar field interacting with a rotating ring are investigated by introducing a collective coordinate for the motion of the background potential. The model is solved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 Martin Schaden

The role played by zero-point contribution, also called quantum noise or vacuum fluctuations, in the quantum expression of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT) is a long-standing open problem widely discussed by the physicist community…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-31 Lino Reggiani , Eleonora Alfinito

The primary focus of this dissertation is the study of the Casimir effect and the possibility that this phenomenon may serve as a mechanism to mediate higher dimensional stability, and also as a possible mechanism for creating a small but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-26 Richard K. Obousy

Vacuum quantum fluctuations are an inescapable and fundamental feature of modern physics. By integrating cavity-enhanced or surface-modified vacuum quantum fluctuations with low-dimensional materials, a new paradigm-vacuumronics-emerges,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Qing-Dong Jiang

Charge fluctuations in nano-circuits with capacitor components are shown to give rise to a novel type of long-ranged interaction, which co-exist with the regular Casimir/van der Waals force. The developed theory distinguishes between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 D. Drosdoff , Igor V. Bondarev , Allan Widom , Rudolph Podgornik , Lilia M. Woods

We compute an analog Casimir effect in a one-dimensional spinless Luttinger liquid confined to a segment in the presence of a nearly-impenetrable partition dividing the segment into two compartments. The Casimir interaction is found to be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley , Michael Timmins

The vacuum energy of a bosonic field interacting locally with objects is decomposed into irreducible $N$-body parts. The irreducible $N$-body contribution to the vacuum energy is finite if the common intersection $O_1\cap O_2...\cap O_N$ of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-10 Martin Schaden

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