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Based on a generalization of the Lifshiftz theory we calculate Casimir forces involving magnetodielectric and possibly anisotropic metamaterials, focusing on the possibility of repulsive forces. It is found that Casimir repulsion decreases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. S. S. Rosa , D. A. R. Dalvit , P. W. Milonni

The Casimir effect for a massless scalar field on the helix boundary condition which is named as quantum spring is studied in our recent paper\cite{Feng}. In this paper, the Casimir effect of the quantum spring is investigated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-08 Xiang-hua Zhai , Xin-zhou Li , Chao-Jun Feng

The Casimir force on two-dimensional pistons for massive scalar fields with both Dirichlet and hybrid boundary conditions is computed. The physical result is obtained by making use of generalized $\zeta$-function regularization technique.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-12 Xiang-hua Zhai , Yan-yan Zhang , Xin-zhou Li

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 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 study the Casimir effect in axion electrodynamics. A finite $\theta$-term affects the energy dispersion relation of photon if $\theta$ is time and/or space dependent. We focus on a special case with linearly inhomogeneous $\theta$ along…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-21 Kenji Fukushima , Shota Imaki , Zebin Qiu

We investigate the Casimir effect between two-dimensional electron systems driven to the quantum Hall regime by a strong perpendicular magnetic field. In the large separation (d) limit where retardation effects are essential we find i) that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Wang-Kong Tse , A. H. MacDonald

We apply the background field method and the effective action formalism to describe the four-dimensional dynamical Casimir effect. Our picture corresponds to the consideration of quantum cosmology for an expanding FRW universe (the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-14 I. Brevik , K. A. Milton , S. D. Odintsov , K. E. Osetrin

Casimir forces are a manifestation of the change in the zero-point energy of the vacuum caused by the insertion of boundaries. We show how the Casimir force can be efficiently computed by consideration of the vacuum fluctuations that are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-31 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley

The Casimir effect giving rise to an attractive or repulsive force between the configuration boundaries that confine the massless scalar field is reexamined for one to three-dimensional pistons in this paper. Especially, we consider Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiang-hua Zhai , Xin-zhou Li

The Casimir force in a system consisting of two parallel conducting plates in the presence of compactified universal extra dimensions (UXD) is analyzed. The Casimir force with UXDs differs from the force obtained without extra dimensions. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Katja Poppenhaeger , Sabine Hossenfelder , Stefan Hofmann , Marcus Bleicher

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

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

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

Within the framework of the (3+1)-dimensional Lorentz-violating extended electrodynamics including the CPT-odd Chern-Simons term, we consider the electromagnetic field between the two parallel perfectly conducting plates. We find the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 O. G. Kharlanov , V. Ch. Zhukovsky

We consider gauge theories based on abelian $p-$forms on real compact hyperbolic spaces. Using the zeta-function regularization method and the trace tensor kernel formula, we determine explicitly an expression for the vacuum energy (Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Bytsenko , M. E. X. Guimaraes , V. S. Mendes

Weyl semimetals are a class of topological materials that exhibit a bulk Hall effect due to time-reversal symmetry breaking. We show that for the idealized semi-infinite case, the Casimir force between two identical Weyl semimetals is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Justin H. Wilson , Andrew A. Allocca , Victor M. Galitski

We compute the vacuum energy of a scalar field rotating with angular velocity $\Omega$ on a disk of radius $R$ and with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The rotation is introduced by a metric obtained by a Galilean transformation from a rest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-09 M. Bordag , I. G. Pirozhenko

We study the Dynamical Casimir Effect (DCE) for a real scalar field $\varphi$ in $d+1$ dimensions, in the presence of a mirror that imposes Dirichlet boundary conditions and undergoes time-dependent motion or deformation. Using a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 B. C. Guntsche , C. D. Fosco

In this work we analyze the Casimir energy and force for a {\it thick} piston configuration. This study is performed by utilizing the spectral zeta function regularization method. The results we obtain for the Casimir energy and force…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-26 Guglielmo Fucci