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The Casimir effect results from alterations of the zero-point electromagnetic energy introduced by boundary-conditions. For ferromagnetic layers separated by vacuum (or a dielectric) such boundary-conditions are influenced by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Metalidis , P. Bruno

The Lifshitz formula is well known as a theoretical approach to investigate the Casimir effect at finite temperature. In this Letter, we generalize the Lifshitz formula to the Casimir effect originating from quantum fields at finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Daisuke Fujii , Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki

In this paper we discuss the computation of Casimir energy on a quantum computer. The Casimir energy is an ideal quantity to calculate on a quantum computer as near term hybrid classical quantum algorithms exist to calculate the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Juliette K. Stecenko , Yuan Feng , Michael McGuigan

We propose the Casimir effect as a general method to observe Lifshitz transitions in electron systems. The concept is demonstrated with a planar spin-orbit coupled semiconductor in a magnetic field. We calculate the Casimir force between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Andrew A. Allocca , Justin H. Wilson , Victor Galitski

We propose a general numerical method to study the Casimir effect in lattice gauge theories. We illustrate the method by calculating the energy density of zero-point fluctuations around two parallel wires of finite static permittivity in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-07 M. N. Chernodub , V. A. Goy , A. V. Molochkov

We study the Dirichlet Casimir effect for a complex scalar field on two noncommutative spatial coordinates plus a commutative time. To that end, we introduce Dirichlet-like boundary conditions on a curve contained in the spatial plane, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. D. Fosco , G. A. Moreno

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

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

The Casimir effect for {mass dimension one fermion fields (sometimes called Elko)} in $3+1$ dimension is obtained using Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is shown the existence of a repulsive force four times greater than the case of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-03 S. H. Pereira , J. M. Hoff da Silva , Rubia dos Santos

The Casimir effect is a quantum phenomenon rooted in the fact that vacuum fluctuations of quantum fields are affected by the presence of physical objects and boundaries. Since the energy spectrum of the vacuum fluctuations depends on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 M. N. Chernodub , V. A. Goy , A. V. Molochkov

Landau-Ginzburg $\phi^4$ field theory is usually applied to systems for understanding continuous phase transitions at critical points. Here we analyze the thermal field using a similar free energy description from a statistical field theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-22 Venkat Abhignan , R. Sankaranarayanan

The Casimir force between two perfectly reflecting parallel plates is considered. In a recent paper we presented generalised physical boundary conditions describing perfectly reflecting parallel plates. These boundary conditions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-15 Adam Stokes , Robert Bennett

We explore the properties of an analog to the Casimir effect on Laakso spaces such as the dependence on the separation of the plates and boundary effects. We also mention some results on the influence of complex poles in the spectral zeta…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 Roberk Kesler , Benjamin Steinhurst

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…

In this paper, we analyze the fermionic Casimir effects associated with a massless quantum field in the context of Lorentz symmetry violation approach based on Horava-Lifshitz methodology. In order to obtain these observables, we impose the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-22 Dêivid R. da Silva , M. B. Cruz , E. R. Bezerra de Mello

Zero-point fluctuations in quantum fields give rise to observable forces between material bodies, the so-called Casimir forces. In these lectures I present the theory of the Casimir effect, primarily formulated in terms of Green's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kimball A. Milton

In this work, we consider a torque caused by the well known quantum mechanical Casimir effect arising from quantized field fluctuations between plates with inhomogeneous, sharply discontinuous, dielectric properties. While the Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-18 William Long , Lucas Schuermann

We review recent developments in the Casimir effect which arises in quantization volumes restricted by material boundaries and in spaces with non-Euclidean topology. The starting point of our discussion is the novel exact solution for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 V. M. Mostepanenko

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 apply quantum field theory in quantum space-time techniques to study the Casimir effect for large spherical shells. As background we use the recently constructed exact quantum solution for spherically symmetric vacuum space-time in loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Rodolfo Gambini , Javier Olmedo , Jorge Pullin