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The Casimir effect for Dirac as well as for scalar charged particles is influenced by external magnetic fields. It is also influenced by finite temperature. Here we consider the Casimir effect for a charged scalar field under the combined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Cougo-Pinto , C. Farina , M. R. Negrao , A. Tort

The vacuum expectation value of the electromagnetic energy-momentum tensor between two parallel plates in spacetime dimensions D > 4 is calculated in the axial gauge. While the pressure between the plates agrees with the global Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Alnes , K. Olaussen , F. Ravndal , I. K. Wehus

We compute Casimir forces in open geometries with edges, involving parallel as well as perpendicular semi-infinite plates. We focus on Casimir configurations which are governed by a unique dimensional scaling law with a universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Holger Gies , Klaus Klingmuller

We derive a general procedure for finding the electromagnetic normal modes in layered structures. We apply this procedure to planar, spherical and cylindrical structures. These normal modes are important in a variety of applications. They…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-03 Bo E. Sernelius

A new version of the Casimir effect where the two plates conduct in specific, different, directions is considered. By direct functional integration the evaluation of the Casimir energy as a function of the angle between the conduction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Oded Kenneth , Shmuel Nussinov

Two thin conducting, electrically neutral, parallel plates forming an isolated system in vacuum exert attracting force on each other, whose origin is the quantum electrodynamical interaction. This theoretical hypothesis, known as Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrzej Herdegen

Casimir effect in most general terms may be understood as a backreaction of a quantum system causing an adiabatic change of the external conditions under which it is placed. This paper is the second installment of a work scrutinizing this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrzej Herdegen

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 give a robust formulation to calculate the Casimir energy and Casimir force for plane-parallel multilayer setups with general dielectric constants. We derive recursion relations for multilayer reflection and transmission coefficients in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Kyohei Mukaida , Hideo Iizuka , Kazunori Nakayama

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

The Casimir effect describes the attractive force arising due to quantum fluctuations of the vacuum electromagnetic field between closely spaced conducting plates. Traditionally, zeta-regularization is employed in calculations to address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Ching-Hsuan Yen

We obtain stronger laboratory constraints on the coupling constants of axion-like particles to nucleons from measurements of the normal and lateral Casimir forces between sinusoidally corrugated surfaces of a sphere and a plate. For this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 V. B. Bezerra , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , C. Romero

We extend our previous work on a derivative expansion for the Casimir energy, to the case of the electromagnetic field coupled to two thin, imperfect mirrors. The latter are described by means of vacuum polarization tensors localized on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Cesar D. Fosco , Fernando C. Lombardo , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

The Casimir effect for massless scalar fields satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions on the parallel plates in the presence of one fractal extra compactified dimension is analyzed. We obtain the Casimir energy density by means of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Hongbo Cheng

We analyze the Casimir-Lifshitz effect associated with the electromagnetic field in the presence of a rectangular waveguide consisting of two distinct dielectric materials in a $(3+1)$-dimensional spacetime. We employ the surface mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 E. Arias , G. O. Heymans , N. F. Svaiter

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

We point out that there is a stable configuration of metal plates where the Casimir force is vanishing in axion electrodynamics. We consider a concrete setup involving Weyl semimetals, which hosts an axion-like effect on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-02 Yohei Ema , Masashi Hazumi , Hideo Iizuka , Kyohei Mukaida , Kazunori Nakayama

The vacuum fluctuations give rise to a number of phenomena; however, the the Casimir Effect is arguably the most salient manifestation of the quantum vacuum. In its most basic form it is realized through the interaction of a pair of neutral…

General Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 Richard Obousy

We discuss radiative corrections to the Casimir effect from an effective field theory point of view. It is an improvement and more complete version of a previous discussion by Kong and Ravndal. By writing down the most general effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Finn Ravndal , Jan B. Thomassen

We study the Casimir effect for a parallel plate setup with one plate with dynamical edge mode (DEM) boundary conditions, and one plate with perfect electromagnetic conductor (PEMC) boundary conditions. In order to restore BRST invariance,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Jarne Devroe , David Dudal , Sebbe Stouten