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In this paper I study the Casimir effect caused by a charged and massive scalar field that breaks Lorentz invariance in a CPT-even, aether-like manner. The breaking of Lorentz invariance is implemented by a constant space-like vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-13 Andrea Erdas

The Casimir effect, which predicts the emergence of an attractive force between two parallel, highly reflecting plates in vacuum, plays a vital role in various fields of physics, from quantum field theory and cosmology to nanophotonics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Daniel Hodgson , Christopher Burgess , M. Basil Altaie , Almut Beige , Robert Purdy

In this paper, the Casimir effect for parallel plates in the presence of one compactified universal extra dimension is reexamined in detail. Having regularized the expressions of Casimir force, we show that the nature of Casimir force is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Hongbo Cheng

The Casimir effect arises not only in the presence of material boundaries but also in space with nontrivial topology. In this paper, we choose a topology of the flat $(D+1)$-dimensional spacetime, which causes the helix boundary condition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li

The electromagnetic Casimir effect has a fermionic counterpart in topological insulators: Zero-point fluctuations of a massless Dirac fermion field mediate a force between magnetic scatterers. The Casimir force is insensitive to disorder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 C. W. J. Beenakker

In this paper, we consider the fermionic Casimir effect under a new type of space-time topology using the concept of quotient topology. The relation between the new topology and that in Ref. \cite{Feng,Zhai3} is something like that between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-30 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 of a piston for massless scalar fields which satisfy Dirichlet boundary conditions in the context of five-dimensional Randall-Sundrum models is studied. In these scenarios we derive and calculate the expression for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Hongbo Cheng

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 statistical mechanical approach to Casimir problems for dielectrics separated by a vacuum gap turns out to be compact and effective. A central ingredient of this method is the effect of interacting fluctuating dipole moments of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-10 Johan S. Høye , Iver Brevik

We determine the effect of Lorentz invariance violation in the vacuum energy and stress between two parallel plates separated by a distance $L$, in the presence of a massive real scalar field. We parametrize the Lorentz-violation in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-06 C. A. Escobar , A. Martín-Ruiz , O. J. Franca , Marcos A. G. Garcia

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 Casimir effect at finite temperature for a massless scalar field in the parallel plates geometry in N spatial dimensions, under various combinations of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on the plates. We show that in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Rubin , J. Feinberg , A. Mann , M. Revzen

Casimir forces of massive fermionic Dirac fields are calculated for parallel plates geometry in spatial space with dimension d and imposing bag model boundary conditions.It is shown that in the range of ma>>1 where m is mass of fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 Amir H. Abbassi &A. R. Sadre Momtaz

We study the Casimir effect for scalar fields with general curvature coupling subject to mixed boundary conditions $(1+\beta_{m}n^{\mu}\partial_{\mu})\phi =0$ at $x=a_{m}$ on one ($m=1$) and two ($m=1,2$) parallel plates at a distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Romeo , A. A. Saharian

The Casimir force on a $D$-dimensional sphere due to the confinement of a massless scalar field is computed as a function of $D$, where $D$ is a continuous variable that ranges from $-\infty$ to $\infty$. The dependence of the force on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Carl M. Bender , Kimball A. Milton

We find the exact Casimir force between a plate and a cylinder, a geometry intermediate between parallel plates, where the force is known exactly, and the plate--sphere, where it is known at large separations. The force has an unexpectedly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Emig , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar , A. Scardicchio

In this article, we derive the finite temperature Casimir force acting on a pair of parallel plates due to a massless scalar field propagating in the bulk of a higher dimensional brane model. In contrast to previous works which used…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-23 L. P. Teo

The Casimir force between parallel lines in a theory describing condensed vortices in a plane is determined. We make use of the relation between a Chern-Simons-Higgs model and its dualized version, which is expressed in terms of a dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-04 J. F. de Medeiros Neto , Rudnei O. Ramos , Carlos Rafael M. Santos

In this article, we study the finite temperature Casimir effect for scalar field with Robin boundary conditions on two parallel plates in a background spacetime that has a compact internal manifold with arbitrary geometry. The finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 L. P. Teo