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We revisit the Casimir effect for two concentric spherical shells in de Sitter background with a new geometric configuration, namely Euclidean signature between and Lorentzian signature outside the spheres with different cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-03 F. Darabi

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

This paper studies quantum field theories defined in networks, which are the multi-branch generalizations of interface conformal field theory (ICFT). We propose a novel junction condition on the node and show that it is consistent with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Tian-Ming Zhao , Rong-Xin Miao

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

We study collective interaction effects that result from the change of free quantum electrodynamic field fluctuations by one- and two-dimensional perfect metal structures. The Casimir interactions in geometries containing plates and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-18 Sahand Jamal Rahi , Thorsten Emig , Robert L. Jaffe , Mehran Kardar

We calculate the increase in the number of modes (the Kac number) per unit length and the change in the zero-point energy (the Casimir energy) of the electromagnetic field resulting from the introduction of a thin perfectly conducting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-17 Joseph P. Straley , Graham A. White , Eugene B. Kolomeisky

We study the Dynamical Casimir Effect resulting from the oscillatory motion of either one or two flat semitransparent mirrors, coupled to a quantum real and massless scalar field. Our approach is based on a perturbative evaluation, in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 C. D. Fosco , A. Giraldo , F. D. Mazzitelli

In this work, we present a rather simple method to study the Casimir effect on a spherical shell for a massless scalar field with Dirichlet boundary condition by applying the indefinite metric field (Krein) quantization technique. In this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 H. Pejhan , M. Reza Tanhayi , M. V. Takook

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 present a variety of methods to derive the Casimir interaction in planar systems containing two-dimensional layers. Examples where this can be of use is graphene, graphene-like layers and two-dimensional electron gases. We present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bo E. Sernelius

We study the influence of stationary axisymmetric spacetimes on Casimir energy. We consider a massive scalar field and analyze its dependence on the apparatus orientation with respect to the dragging direction associated with such spaces.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 V. D. Coronell , A. E. Gonçalves , M. C. Baldiotti , R. C. Batista

We study Casimir interactions between cylinders in thermal non-equilibrium, where the objects as well as the environment are held at different temperatures. We provide the general formula for the force, in a one reflection approximation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-17 Vladyslav A. Golyk , Matthias Krüger , M. T. Homer Reid , Mehran Kardar

In this work, we obtain the Casimir energy for the real scalar field and the Elko neutral spinor field in a field theory at a Lifshitz fixed point (LP). We analyze the massless and the massive case for both fields using dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 R. V. Maluf , D. M. Dantas , C. A. S. Almeida

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 discuss non-equilibrium extensions of the Casimir force (due to electromagnetic fluctuations), where the objects as well as the environment are held at different temperatures. While the formalism we develop is quite general, we focus on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-31 Matthias Krüger , Thorsten Emig , Giuseppe Bimonte , Mehran Kardar

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

We present a detailed description of a quantum scalar field theory within a flat spacetime confined to a cavity with perfectly reflecting moving boundaries. Moreover, we establish an equivalence between this time-dependent setting and a…

A global approach with cut-off exponential functions previously proposed is used to obtain the Casimir energy of a massless scalar field in the presence of a spherical shell. The proposed method makes the use of two regulators, one of them…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-22 M. S. R. Miltão , Franz A. Farias

A novel approach for calculating Casimir forces between periodically deformed objects is developed. This approach allows, for the first time, a rigorous non-perturbative treatment of the Casimir effect for disconnected objects beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-17 Thorsten Emig

The Casimir effect for a massless scalar field on the helix boundary condition which is named as quantum spring is studied in our recent paper\cite{Feng}. In this paper, the Casimir effect of the quantum spring is investigated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-08 Xiang-hua Zhai , Xin-zhou Li , Chao-Jun Feng