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The mapping between a classical length and inverse temperature as imaginary time provides a direct equivalence between the Casimir force of a classical system in $D$ dimensions and internal energy of a quantum system in $d$$=$$D$$-$$1$…

We present results for the temperature behavior of the Casimir force for a system with a film geometry with thickness $L$ subject to free boundary conditions and described by the $n\to\infty$ limit of the $O(n)$ model. These results extend…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Daniel Dantchev , Jonathan Bergknoff , Joseph Rudnick

In confined systems near a continuous phase transition the long-ranged fluctuations of the corresponding order parameter are subject to boundary conditions. These constraints result in so-called critical Casimir forces acting as effective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. F. Mohry , A. Maciołek , S. Dietrich

We derive analytic expressions for the Helmholtz free energy, Casimir force, and Casimir entropy for both one-dimensional and three-dimensional scalar fields with Dirichlet boundary conditions at finite temperature. We investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Liang Chen , Yu-Jing Wang , Sheng-Yan Li

The physical origin of the Casimir force is connected with the existence of zero-point and thermal fluctuations. The Casimir effect is very general and finds applications in various fields of physics. This review is limited to the rapid…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-18 G. L. Klimchitskaya , U. Mohideen , V. M. Mostepanenko

The Casimir force has been computed exactly for only a few simple geometries, such as infinite plates, cylinders, and spheres. We show that a parabolic cylinder, for which analytic solutions to the Helmholtz equation are available, is…

We show various aspects of finite size effects on Bose-Einstein condensation(BEC). In the first section we introduce very briefly the BEC of harmonically trapped ideal Bose gas. In the second section we theoretically argued that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-18 Shyamal Biswas

We compute the finite temperature Casimir energy for massive scalar field with general curvature coupling subject to Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on the walls of a closed cylinder with arbitrary cross section, located in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 L. P. Teo

A novel approach for calculating Casimir forces between periodically deformed objects is developed. This approach allows, for the first time, a rigorous non-perturbative treatment of the Casimir effect for disconnected objects beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-17 Thorsten Emig

We present a general method to study the non-equilibrium behavior of Casimir type fluctuation induced forces for classical free scalar field theories. In particular we analyze the temporal evolution of the force towards its equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 David S. Dean , Ajay Gopinathan

Quantum fluctuations give rise to Casimir forces between two parallel conducting plates, the magnitude of which increases monotonically as the separation decreases. By introducing nanoscale gratings to the surfaces, recent advances have…

While techniques to compute thermal fluctuation induced, or pseudo-Casimir, forces in equilibrium systems are well established, the same is not true for non-equilibrium cases. We present a general formalism that allows us to unambiguously…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-10 David S. Dean , Ajay Gopinathan

For the Casimir piston filled with an inhomogeneous medium, the Casimir energy is regularized and expressed with cylinder kernel coefficients by using the first-order perturbation theory. When the refraction index of the medium is smoothly…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Fanglin Bao , Bin Luo , Sailing He

The Casimir-Lifhitz force acts between neutral material bodies and is due to the fluctuations (around zero) of the electrical polarizations of the bodies. This force is a macroscopic manifestation of the van der Waals forces between atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 Iver Brevik , Boris Shapiro

The confinement of critical fluctuations in soft media induces critical Casimir forces acting on the confining surfaces. The temperature and geometry dependences of such forces are characterized by universal scaling functions. A novel…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-10 O. Vasilyev , A. Gambassi , A. Maciolek , S. Dietrich

Considering a determinantal point process on the real line, we establish a connection between the sine-kernel asymptotics for the correlation kernel and the CLT for mesoscopic linear statistics. This implies universality of mesoscopic…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Gaultier Lambert

Several problems at the interface between the field-theoretical description of the Casimir effect and experiments on measuring the Casimir force are discussed. One of these problems is connected with the definition of the Casimir free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 V. M. Mostepanenko

Confining in space the equilibrium fluctuations of statistical systems with long-range correlations is known to result into effective forces on the boundaries. Here we demonstrate the occurrence of Casimir-like forces in the non-equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-04 Giuseppe Fava , Andrea Gambassi , Francesco Ginelli

We study the thermodynamic Casimir force between a spherical object and a plate. We consider the bulk universality class of the three-dimensional Ising model, which is relevant for experiments on binary mixtures. To this end, we simulate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-27 Martin Hasenbusch

The vacuum energy density of electromagnetic field inside a perfectly conducting wedge is calculated by making use of the local zeta function technique. This regularization completely eliminates divergent expressions in the course of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 V. V. Nesterenko , G. Lambiase , G. Scarpetta