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We present a new approach to the Helmholtz spectrum for arbitrarily shaped boundaries and general boundary conditions. We derive the boundary induced change of the density of states in terms of the free Green's function from which we obtain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rauno Buescher , Thorsten Emig

In a recent study [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{94}, 022103 (2016)] it has been shown that, for a fluid film subject to critical adsorption, the resulting critical Casimir force (CCF) may significantly depend on the thermodynamic ensemble. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-13 Christian M. Rohwer , Alessio Squarcini , Oleg Vasilyev , S. Dietrich , Markus Gross

The Casimir effect giving rise to an attractive force between the configuration boundaries that confine the massless scalar field is rigorously proven for odd dimensional hypercube with the Dirichlet boundary conditions and different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Xin-zhou Li , Xiang-hua Zhai

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

Schl\"omilch's formula is generalized and applied to the thermal Casimir effect of a fermionic field confined a three-dimensional rectangular box. The analytic expressions of the Casimir energy and Casimir force are derived for arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Zhongyou Mo , Junji Jia

In this article, we consider the finite temperature Casimir effect in Kaluza-Klein spacetime due the the vacuum fluctuation of massless scalar field with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We consider the general case where the extra dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 L. P. Teo

We study Casimir forces on the partition in a closed box (piston) with perfect metallic boundary conditions. Related closed geometries have generated interest as candidates for a repulsive force. By using an optical path expansion we solve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. P. Hertzberg , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar , A. Scardicchio

The effect of edges and apertures on the Casimir energy of an arrangement of plates and boundaries can be calculated in terms of an effective nonlocal lower-dimensional field theory that lives on the boundary. This formalism has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-05 Dimitra Karabali , V. P. Nair

We study the vacuum polarization (Casimir) energy in renormalizable, continuum quantum field theory in the presence of a background field, designed to impose Dirichlet boundary conditions on the fluctuating quantum field. In two and three…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Weigel

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 geometry dependence of Casimir forces is significantly more pronounced in the presence of thermal fluctuations due to a generic geometry-temperature interplay. We show that the thermal force for standard sphere-plate or cylinder-plate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Alexej Weber , Holger Gies

We study the Casimir piston for massless scalar fields obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions in a three dimensional cavity with sides of arbitrary lengths $a,b$ and $c$ where $a$ is the plate separation. We obtain an exact expression for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ariel Edery

We consider the three-dimensional Ising model in a $L_\perp \times L_\parallel \times L_\parallel$ cuboid geometry with finite aspect ratio $\rho = L_\perp/L_\parallel$ and periodic boundary conditions along all directions. For this model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-04 Alfred Hucht , Daniel Grüneberg , Felix M. Schmidt

We consider the thermal Casimir effect in systems of parallel plates coupled to a mass-less free field theory via quadratic interaction terms which suppress (i) the field on the plates (ii) the gradient of the field in the plane of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-27 David S. Dean

The Casimir effect for parallel plates satisfying the Dirichlet boundary condition in the context of effective QED coming from a six-dimensional Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution of the Abelian Higgs model with fermions coupled to gravity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-26 Hongbo Cheng

We consider a massless scalar field obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions on the walls of a two-dimensional L x b rectangular box, divided by a movable partition (piston) into two compartments of dimensions a x b and (L-a) x b. We compute…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Cavalcanti

We reconsider the thermal scalar Casimir effect for $p$-dimensional rectangular cavity inside $D+1$-dimensional Minkowski space-time. We derive rigorously the regularization of the temperature-dependent part of the free energy by making use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Rui-hui Lin , Xiang-hua Zhai

The Casimir effect is an interesting phenomenon in the sense that it provides us with one of the primitive means of extracting the energy out of the vacuum. Since the original work of Casimir a number of works have appeared in extending the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Abe , J. Hashida , T. Muta , A. Purwanto

We consider the finite temperature Casimir stress acting on the boundary of a D>=3 dimensional cavity due to the vacuum fluctuations of electromagnetic fields. Both perfectly conducting and infinitely permeable boundary conditions are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 L. P. Teo

We study the critical Casimir force for a film geometry in the Ising universality class. We employ a homogeneous adsorption preference on one of the confining surfaces, while the opposing surface exhibits quenched random disorder, leading…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-04 Francesco Parisen Toldin