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The prototypical Casimir effect arises when a scalar field is confined between parallel Dirichlet boundaries. We study corrections to this when the boundaries themselves have apertures and edges. We consider several geometries: a single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-02 Daniel Kabat , Dimitra Karabali , V. P. Nair

A general calculation of Casimir energies --in an arbitrary number of dimensions-- for massless quantized fields in spherically symmetric cavities is carried out. All the most common situations, including scalar and spinor fields, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Guido Cognola , Emilio Elizalde , Klaus Kirsten

We study the Casimir effect in a system composed of two Weyl semimetals (WSMs) separated by a gap filled with a chiral medium. We calculate the optical response of the material to chiral photons in order to calculate the Casimir force. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 M. Belén Farias , Alexander A. Zyuzin , Thomas L. Schmidt

We derive an expression for the Casimir force between slabs with arbitrary dielectric properties characterized by their reflection coefficients. The formalism presented here is applicable to media with a local or a non-local dielectric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. L. Mochan , C. Villarreal , R. ESquivel-Sirvent

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

The Casimir force between two parallel plates in the G\"odel universe is computed for a scalar field at finite temperature. It is observed that when the plates separation is comparable with the scale given by the rotation of the space-time,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-22 Sh. Khodabakhshi , A. Shojai

We calculate the vacuum (Casimir) energy for a scalar field with $\phi^4$ self-interaction in (1+1) dimensions non perturbatively, i.e., in all orders of the self-interaction. We consider massive and massless fields in a finite box with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-15 M. Bordag

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

We review the definition of the Casimir energy steming naturally from the concept of functional determinant through the zeta function prescription. This is done by considering the theory at finite temperature and by defining then the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Kirsten , E. Elizalde

In the present paper, we show that a partially reflecting static mirror with time-dependent properties can produce, via dynamical Casimir effect in the context of a massless scalar field in $1+1$ dimensions, a larger number of particles…

We calculate the Casimir force between parallel plates for a massless scalar field. When adding the energy of normal modes, we avoid infinities by using a discrete spacetime lattice; however, this approach proves ineffective as long as both…

The Casimir effect for spherical geometry is calculated using generalized Thermofield Dynamics for the case of scalar field. Casimir force and Casimir pressure are presented. It is found that for high temperatures the Casimir force does…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-03-25 D. U. Matrasulov , Kh. T. Butanov , Kh. Yu. Rakhimov , F. C. Khanna , A. E. Santana

We investigate the Casimir effect between two-dimensional electron systems driven to the quantum Hall regime by a strong perpendicular magnetic field. In the large separation (d) limit where retardation effects are essential we find i) that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Wang-Kong Tse , A. H. MacDonald

Investigations show that a time-varying $\delta-\delta'$ mirror gives rise to asymmetrical vacuum radiation on its two sides, enabling one to extract propelling forces from the vacuum fluctuation. In this work, we propose a design of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Yu-Song Cao , YanXia Liu , Ding-Fang Zeng

In this paper we calculate the Casimir energy for a massive fermionic field confined between two points in one spatial dimension, with the MIT Bag Model boundary condition. We compute the Casimir energy directly by summing over the allowed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-17 R. Saghian , M. A. Valuyan , A. Seyedzahedi , S. S. Gousheh

The modified scalar boson propagator due to the presence of a hyperplane semi-transparent mirror is computed. From this, the classical interaction between static charges and the mirror is investigated employing delta-like potentials and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-13 G. T. Camilo , F. E. Barone , F. A. Barone

We study the Dynamical Casimir Effect (DCE) for a real scalar field $\varphi$ in $d+1$ dimensions, in the presence of a mirror that imposes Dirichlet boundary conditions and undergoes time-dependent motion or deformation. Using a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 B. C. Guntsche , C. D. Fosco

We discuss several approaches to determine the Casimir force in inertial frames of reference in different dimensions. On an example of a simple model involving mirrors in Rindler spacetime we show that Casimir's and Lifschitz's methods are…

We develop a formalism for the calculation of the flow of angular momentum carried by the fluctuating electromagnetic field within a cavity bounded by two flat anisotropic materials. By generalizing a procedure employed recently for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 José C. Torres-Guzmán , W. Luis Mochán

We study the field theoretical model of a scalar field in presence of spacial inhomogeneities in form of one and two finite width mirrors (material slabs). The interaction of the scalar field with the defect is described with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Ignat V. Fialkovsky , Vladimir N. Markov , Yuriy M. Pis'mak