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The Casimir effect in a dispersive and absorbing multilayered system is considered adopting the (net) vacuum-field pressure point of view to the Casimir force. Using the properties of the macroscopic field operators appropriate for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. S. Tomas

In this paper, we generalized the surface integral equation method for the evaluation of Casimir force in arbitrary three-dimensional geometries. Similar to the two-dimensional case, the evaluation of the mean Maxwell stress tensor is cast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jie L. Xiong , Mei Song Tong , Phillip Atkins , Weng Cho Chew

We study the zero and finite temperature Casimir force acting on a perfectly conducting piston with arbitrary cross section moving inside a closed cylinder with infinitely permeable walls. We show that at any temperature, the Casimir force…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-19 S. C. Lim , L. P. Teo

We demonstrate theoretically that one can obtain repulsive Casimir forces and stable nanolevitations by using chiral metamaterials. By extending the Lifshitz theory to treat chiral metamaterials, we find that a repulsive force and a minimum…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-11 R. Zhao , J. Zhou , Th. Koschny , E. N. Economou , C. M. Soukoulis

We present non-perturbative results of the Casimir potential in non-abelian gauge theories in (2+1)D and (3+1)D for SU(2) and SU(3) in the confined and deconfined phases. For the first time, geometries beyond parallel plates in (3+1)D…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-05-07 Blessed Arthur Ngwenya

The Casimir energy for massless scalar field which satisfies priodic boundary conditions in two-dimensional domain wall background is calculated by making use of general properties of renormalized stress-tensor. The line element of domain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 M. R. Setare

In this article, we obtain the explicit expression of the Casimir energy for 2-dimensional Clifford-Klein space forms in terms of the geometrical data of the underlying spacetime with the help of zeta-regularization techniques. The…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Ksenia Fedosova , Julie Rowlett , Genkai Zhang

This paper studies the finite temperature Casimir force acting on a rectangular piston associated with a massless fractional Klein-Gordon field at finite temperature. Dirichlet boundary conditions are imposed on the walls of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 S. C. Lim , L. P. Teo

In this paper, the finite temperature Casimir force acting on a two-dimensional Casimir piston due to electromagnetic field is computed. It was found that if mixed boundary conditions are assumed on the piston and its opposite wall, then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-19 L. P. Teo

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

The dynamical Casimir effect for a massless scalar field in 1+1-dimensions is studied numerically by solving a system of coupled first-order differential equations. The number of scalar particles created from vacuum is given by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcus Ruser

In this work I study the Casimir effect of a massive complex scalar field in the presence of one large compactified extra dimension. I investigate the case of a scalar field confined between two parallel plates in the macroscopic three…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-13 Andrea Erdas

Fu and Kane have taught us that a Majorana zero-mode appears on the quantum spin Hall edge at the interface with a superconductor. If a magnetic scatterer is placed on the edge, the zero-point energy of massless edge excitations exerts a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 C. W. J. Beenakker

We study the situation where two point like mirrors are placed in the vacuum state of a scalar field in a two-dimensional spacetime. Describing the scattering upon the mirrors by transmittivity and reflectivity functions obeying unitarity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

The Casimir force for charge-neutral, perfect conductors of non-planar geometric configurations have been investigated. The configurations are: (1) the plate-hemisphere, (2) the hemisphere-hemisphere and (3) the spherical shell. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sung Nae Cho

In this work I study the Casimir effect caused by a charged and massive scalar field that violates Lorentz symmetry in an aether-like and CPT even manner, by direct coupling between the field derivatives and two fixed orthogonal unit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 Andrea Erdas

We study the behavior of fluids, confined by geometrically structured substrates, upon approaching a critical point at T = Tc in their bulk phase diagram. As generic substrate structures periodic arrays of wedges and ridges are considered.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-10-31 M. Tröndle , L. Harnau , S. Dietrich

We calculate the thermal Casimir effect for a dielectric tube of radius $R$ and thickness delta formed from a membrane in water. The method uses a field-theoretic approach in the grand canonical ensemble. The leading contribution to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. S. Dean , R. R. Horgan

The generation of photons in a three dimensional rectangular cavity with two moving boundaries is studied by using the Multiple Scale Analysis (MSA). It is shown that number of photons are enhanced for the cavity whose walls oscillate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cem Yuce , Zalihe Ozcakmakli

A one-dimensional Casimir piston for massless scalar fields obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions in high-dimensional spacetimes within the frame of Kaluza-Klein theory is analyzed. We derive and calculate the exact expression for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hongbo Cheng