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We study the Casimir energy of a scalar field for a regular polygon with N sides. The scalar field obeys Dirichlet boundary conditions at the perimeter of the polygon. The polygon eigenvalues $\lambda_N$ are expressed in terms of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-27 V. K. Oikonomou

In this paper, we consider the Casimir energy of massless scalar field which satisfy Dirichlet boundary condition on a spherical shell. Outside the shell, the spacetime is assumed to be described by the Schwarzschild metric, while inside…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. Setare , M. B. Altaie

In this paper we examine Casimir effect in the case of tachyonic field, which is connected with particles with negative four-momentum square. We consider here only the case of one dimensional, scalar field. In order to describe tachyonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Marcin Ostrowski

A technique for evaluating the electromagnetic Casimir energy in situations involving spherical or circular boundaries is presented. Zeta function regularization is unambiguously used from the start and the properties of Bessel and related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Leseduarte , August Romeo

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

In this work we consider the dynamical Casimir effect for a massless scalar field -- under Dirichlet boundary conditions -- between two concentric spherical shells. We obtain a general expression for the average number of particle creation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Pascoal , L. C. Céleri , S. S. Mizrahi , M. H. Y. Moussa

We discuss the Casimir effect for massless scalar fields subject to the Dirichlet boundary conditions on the parallel plates at finite temperature in the presence of one fractal extra compactified dimension. We obtain the Casimir energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Hongbo Cheng

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

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

We compute the ground state energy of a massive scalar field in the background of a cylindrical shell whose potential is given by a delta function. The zero point energy is expressed in terms of the Jost function of the related scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Scandurra

We consider the Casimir effect for quantized massive scalar field with non-conformal coupling $\xi$ in a spacetime of wormhole whose throat is rounded by a spherical shell. In the framework of zeta-regularization approach we calculate a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Artem R. Khabibullin , Nail R. Khusnutdinov , Sergey V. Sushkov

We develop an exact method for computing the Casimir energy between arbitrary compact objects, both with boundary conditions for a scalar field and dielectrics or perfect conductors for the electromagnetic field. The energy is obtained as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Emig , R. L. Jaffe

The basic results in calculations of the thermodynamic functions of electromagnetic field in the background of a dilute dielectric ball at zero and finite temperature are presented. Summation over the angular momentum values is accomplished…

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

Casimir forces are a manifestation of the change in the zero-point energy of the vacuum caused by the insertion of boundaries. We show how the Casimir force can be computed by consideration of the vacuum fluctuations that are suppressed by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-13 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley

We present a rigorous, regularization independent local quantum field theoretic treatment of the Casimir effect for a quantum scalar field of mass $\mu\ne0$ which yields closed form expressions for the energy density and pressure. As an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Gazzola , M. C. Nemes , W. F. Wreszinski

We compute the one loop Casimir energy of an interacting scalar field in a compact noncommutative space of $R^{1,d}\times T^2_\theta$, where we have ordinary flat $1+d$ dimensional Minkowski space and two dimensional noncommuative torus. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-05 Soonkeon Nam

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

In [5] we investigated the response of vacuum energy to a gravitational field by considering a Casimir apparatus in a weak gravitational field. Our approach was based on a conjecture involving the interpretation of spacetime as a refractive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-01 B. Nazari , M. Nouri-Zonoz

We analyze the dynamical Casimir effect for a massless scalar field confined between two concentric spherical shells which impose on the field mixed boundary conditions. We thus complement a previous result [Phys. Rev. A \textbf{78}, 032521…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-27 F. Pascoal , L. C. Céleri , S. S. Mizrahi , M. H. Y. Moussa , C. Farina

We calculate the Casimir energy of a massless scalar field confined between two nearby parallel plates formed by ideal uncharged conductors, placed tangentially to the surface of a sphere with mass M and radius R. To this end, we take into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-06 C. R. Muniz , V. B. Bezerra , M. S. Cunha