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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 can be understood as resulting from the radiation pressure exerted by the vacuum fluctuations reflected by boundaries. We extend this local formulation to the case of partially transmitting boundaries by introducing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

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

The Wightman function and the vacuum expectation values of the field squared and of the energy-momentum tensor are obtained, for a massive scalar field with an arbitrary curvature coupling parameter, in the region between two infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 E. Elizalde , A. A. Saharian , T. A. Vardanyan

The Casimir effect for parallel plates within the frame of five-dimensional Randall-Sundrum model with two branes is reexamined. We argue that the nature of Casimir force is repulsive if the distance between the plates is not extremely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Hongbo Cheng

In this paper we present the un-Casimir effect, namely the study of the Casimir energy in the presence of an unparticle component in addition to the electromagnetic field contribution. The distinctive feature of the un-Casimir effect is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-27 Antonia M. Frassino , Piero Nicolini , Orlando Panella

The Casimir effect is a quantum phenomenon induced by the zero-point energy of relativistic fields confined in a finite-size system. This effect for photon fields has been studied for a long time, while the realization of counterparts for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki

The Casimir force, which results from the confinement of the quantum mechanical zero-point fluctuations of the electromagnetic fields, has received significant attention in recent years for its effect on micro- and nano-scale mechanical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. N. Munday , Federico Capasso

The Casimir effect, arising from vacuum quantum fluctuations, plays a fundamental role in the development of modern quantum electrodynamics. In parallel, the field of condensed matter has flourished through the discovery of various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Zixuan Dai , Qing-Dong Jiang

Based on a unified approach to macroscopic QED that allows for the inclusion of amplification in a limited space and frequency range, we study the Casimir force as a Lorentz force on an arbitrary partially amplifying system of linearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Agnes Sambale , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Ho Trung Dung

We investigate the Casimir pressure between two parallel plates made of magnetic materials at nonzero temperature. It is shown that for real magnetodielectric materials only the magnetic properties of ferromagnets can influence the Casimir…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. L. Klimchitskaya , B. Geyer , V. M. Mostepanenko

We derive exact expressions for the Casimir scalar interaction energy between media-separated eccentric dielectric cylinders and for the media-separated cylinder-plane geometry using a mode-summation approach. Similarly to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-28 F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli , P. I. Villar , D. A. R. Dalvit

The Casimir force between conducting plates at rest in an inertial frame is usually computed in equal-time quantization, the natural choice for the given boundary conditions. We show that the well-known result obtained in this way can also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Sophia S. Chabysheva , John R. Hiller

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

The zero-temperature Casimir-Lifshitz force between two plates moving parallel to each other at arbitrary constant speed was found in [New J. Phys. 11, 033035 (2009)]. The solution is here generalized to the case where the plates are at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-11 T. G. Philbin , U. Leonhardt

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

The Casimir interaction energy for a class of discrete self-similar configuration of parallel plates is evaluated using existing methods. The similarities to characteristics of an attractive Casimir force is deduced only at infinite range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Venkat Abhignan , R. Sankaranarayanan

Casimir-type forces, such as those between two neutral conducting plates, or between a sphere, atom or molecule and a plate have been widely studied and are becoming of increasing significance, for example, in nanotechnology. A key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-24 Alvaro M. Alhambra , Achim Kempf , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We revisit the calculation of the Casimir effect from the perspective of scale limited resolutions of quantum fields. We use the continuous wavelet transform to introduce a scale degree of freedom and then restrict it to simulate either an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Šimon Vedl , Daniel J. George , Gavin K. Brennen

We evaluate the Casimir energy and force for a massive fermionic field in the geometry of two parallel plates on background of Minkowski spacetime with an arbitrary number of toroidally compactified spatial dimensions. The bag boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-08 S. Bellucci , A. A. Saharian