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We consider the quantization of a scalar kappa-deformed field up to the point of obtaining an expression for its vacuum energy. The expression is given by the half sum of the field frequencies, as in the non-deformed case, but with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 M. V. Cougo-Pinto , C. Farina , J. F. M. Mendes

The effect of edges and apertures on the Casimir energy of an arrangement of plates and boundaries can be calculated in terms of an effective nonlocal lower-dimensional field theory that lives on the boundary. This formalism has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-05 Dimitra Karabali , V. P. Nair

We present a simple formalism for the evaluation of the Casimir energy for two spheres and a sphere and a plane, in case of a scalar fluctuating field, valid at any separations. We compare the exact results with various approximation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Aurel Bulgac , Piotr Magierski , Andreas Wirzba

In this thesis, we investigate the dynamical Casimir effect, the creation of particles from vacuum by dynamical boundary conditions or dynamical background, and its backreaction to the motion of the boundary. The backreaction of particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-17 Yu-Cun Xie

In this work the Casimir effect is studied for scalar fields in the presence of boundaries and under the influence of arbitrary smooth potentials of compact support. In this setting, piston configurations are analyzed in which the piston is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-27 Matthew Beauregard , Guglielmo Fucci , Klaus Kirsten , Pedro Morales

We consider the Casimir effect for a sphere in front of a plane at finite temperature for scalar and electromagnetic fields and calculate the limiting cases. For small separation we compare the exact results with the corresponding ones…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Bordag , I. Pirozhenko

The Casimir energy is calculated in one-, two-, and three-dimensional spaces for the field with generalized coordinates and momenta satisfying the deformed Poisson brackets leading to the minimal length.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ivan Vakarchuk

We calculate the renormalized vacuum energy density for a massless scalar field confined between two nearby parallel plates formed by ideal uncharged conductors, placed very close to the surface of a rotating spherical gravitational source…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 V. B. Bezerra , H. F. Mota , C. R. Muniz

We apply the proximity force approximation, which is widely used for the calculation of the Casimir force between bodies with nonplanar boundary surfaces, to gravitational and Yukawa-type interactions. It is shown that for the gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-30 R. S. Decca , E. Fischbach , G. L. Klimchitskaya , D. E. Krause , D. López , V. M. Mostepanenko

We show that in order to account for the repulsive Casimir effect in the parallel plate geometry in terms of the quantum version of the Lorentz force, virtual surface densities of magnetic charges and currents must be introduced. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 C. Farina , F. C. Santos , A. C. Tort

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

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

We apply the quasi-local stress-energy tensor formalism to the Casimir effect of a scalar field confined between conducting planes located in a static spacetime. We show that the surface energy vanishes for both Neumann and Dirichlet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-07 Borzoo Nazari

A simple method for calculating the Casimir energy for a sphere is developed which is based on a direct mode summation and counter integration in a complex plane of eigenfrequencies. The method uses only classical equations determining the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 V. V. Nesterenko , I. G. Pirozhenko

We obtain the Casimir effect for the massless scalar field in one dimension based on the analogy between the quantum field and the continuum limit of an infinite set of coupled harmonical oscillators.

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Farkas , N. Nicolaevici

We apply quantum field theory in quantum space-time techniques to study the Casimir effect for large spherical shells. As background we use the recently constructed exact quantum solution for spherically symmetric vacuum space-time in loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Rodolfo Gambini , Javier Olmedo , Jorge Pullin

The Casimir energy is computed in the geometry of interest for the most precise experiments, a plane and a sphere in electromagnetic vacuum. The scattering formula is developed on adapted plane-waves and multipole basis, leading to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-31 Paulo A. Maia Neto , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

The Casimir effect is a physical manifestation of zero point energy of quantum vacuum. In a relativistic quantum field theory, Poincar\'e symmetry of the theory seems, at first sight, to imply that non-zero vacuum energy is inconsistent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Takamaru Akita , Mamoru Matsunaga

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