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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

We present a general extension of a field-theoretic approach developed in earlier papers to the calculation of the free energy of symmetrically layered electrolytic systems which is based on the Sine-Gordon field theory for the Coulomb gas.…

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

We consider the Casimir interaction between two spheres at zero and finite temperature, for both scalar fields and electromagnetic fields. Of particular interest is the asymptotic expansions of the Casimir free energy when the distance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 L. P. Teo

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 Casimir effect is investigated in light-cone quantization. It is shown that for spacelike separation of the walls enclosing the system the standard result for the pressure exerted on the walls is obtained. For walls separated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Lenz , D. Steinbacher

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

We derive the explicit expression for the Casimir energy between a sphere and a 1D grating, in terms of the sphere and grating reflection matrices, and valid for arbitrary materials, sphere radius, and grating geometric parameters. We then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-21 Riccardo Messina , Paulo A. Maia Neto , Brahim Guizal , Mauro Antezza

A computation of the Casimir effect for a real scalar field in four situations: on a segment of a line, on a circle and on both standard commutative and noncommutative two-spheres is given in this paper. The main aim of this paper is to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Michal Demetrian

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

We consider the high temperature limit of the Casimir interaction between a Dirichlet sphere and a Dirichlet plate due to the vacuum fluctuations of a scalar field in $(D+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The high temperature leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 L. P. Teo

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 consider the Casimir effect of a massive vector field between two semi-infinite dielectric slabs. We first derive the generalization of the Lifshitz formula that gives the Casimir interaction energy of two magnetodielectric slabs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 L. P. Teo

We evaluate the Hadamard function, the vacuum expectation values (VEVs) of the field squared and the energy-momentum tensor for a massive scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter in the geometry of two parallel plates on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 E. R. Bezerra de Mello , A. A. Saharian , M. R. Setare

We consider the Casimir effect for quantized massive scalar field with non-conformal coupling $\xi$ in a spacetime of wormhole whose throat is rounded by a spherical shell. In the framework of zeta-regularization approach we calculate a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Artem R. Khabibullin , Nail R. Khusnutdinov , Sergey V. Sushkov

In this paper we consider a Lorentz-breaking extension of the theory for a real massive scalar quantum field in the region between two large parallel plates, with our manner to break the Lorentz symmetry is CPT-even, aether-like. For this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-01 M. B. Cruz , E. R. Bezerra de Mello , A. Yu. Petrov

It has been speculated that the zero-point energy of the vacuum, regularized due to the existence of a suitable ultraviolet cut-off scale, could be the source of the non-vanishing cosmological constant that is driving the present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gaurang Mahajan , Sudipta Sarkar , T. Padmanabhan

We examine the Casimir effect for free statistical field theories which have Hamiltonians with second order derivative terms. Examples of such Hamiltonians arise from models of non-local electrostatics, membranes with non-zero bending…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-25 David S. Dean , Bing Miao , Rudolf Podgornik

The prototypical Casimir effect arises when a scalar field is confined between parallel Dirichlet boundaries. We study corrections to this when the boundaries themselves have apertures and edges. We consider several geometries: a single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-02 Daniel Kabat , Dimitra Karabali , V. P. Nair

The Casimir energy for a massless scalar field between the closely spaced two concentric D-dimensional (for D>3) spheres is calculated by using the mode summation with contour integration in the complex plane of eigenfrequencies and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Mustafa Özcan

The ground state energy of a boundary quantum field theory is derived in planar geometry in D+1 dimensional spacetime. It provides a universal expression for the Casimir energy which exhibits its dependence on the boundary conditions via…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Z. Bajnok , L. Palla , G. Takacs