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The infrared behavior of quantum field theories confined in bounded domains is strongly dependent on the shape and structure of space boundaries. The most significant physical effect arises in the behaviour of the vacuum energy. The Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-16 M. Asorey , J. M. Munoz-Castaneda

Strong coupling between vacuum fields and quantum matter occurs at the nanoscale and broadens the horizon of light-matter interaction. Nanoscale Casimir force, as an exhibition of vacuum fields, inevitably experiences the influence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Hewan Zhang , Kun Ding

We show that two indistinguishable aspects of the divergences occurring in the Casimir effect, namely the divergence of the energy of the higher modes and the non-com\-pact\-ness of the momentum space, get disentangled in a given…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-28 S. A. Franchino-Viñas , S. Mignemi

We study the influence of a background uniform magnetic field and boundary conditions on the vacuum of a quantized charged spinor matter field confined between two parallel neutral plates; the magnetic field is directed orthogonally to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-06 Yu. A. Sitenko

We evaluate the effective action for the Dynamical Casimir Effect (DCE) for a real scalar field in d+1 dimensions within the worldline formulation of quantum field theory. The scalar field is coupled to a spacetime-dependent mass term,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 C. D. Fosco , B. C. Guntsche

Casimir forces are conventionally computed by analyzing the effects of boundary conditions on a fluctuating quantum field. Although this analysis provides a clean and calculationally tractable idealization, it does not always accurately…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Graham , R. L. Jaffe , V. Khemani , M. Quandt , O. Schroeder , H. Weigel

Open system dynamics of an electron is studied in the presence of radiation field, confined between two parallel conducting pates. It has been suggested in previous works that the quantized zero-point modes of this field lead to finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Anirudh Gundhi

The quantum vacuum (Casimir) energy arising from noninteracting massless quanta is known to induce a long-range force, while decays exponentially for massive fields and separations larger than the inverse mass of the quanta involved. Here,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-07 Antonino Flachi , Vincenzo Vitagliano

We present an approach to studying the Casimir effects by means of the effective theory. An essential point of our approach is replacing the mirror separation into the size of space S^1 in the adiabatic approximation. It is natural to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Yukinori Nagatani , Kei Shigetomi

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 study the backreaction of a charged scalar quantum field in the presence of two opposite charges placed at the boundaries of a finite one-dimensional region, with attention to boundary effects. We review, correct, and extend previous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Santiago Sanz-Wuhl , Jochen Zahn

We study the finite temperature Casimir effect on a pair of parallel perfectly conducting plates in Randall-Sundrum model without using scalar field analogy. Two different ways of interpreting perfectly conducting conditions are discussed.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 L. P. Teo

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

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

The vacuum expectation values of the energy--momentum tensor are investigated for massless scalar fields satisfying Dicichlet or Neumann boundary conditions, and for the electromagnetic field with perfect conductor boundary conditions on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 R. M. Avagyan , A. A. Saharian , A. H. Yeranyan

In this work I study the Casimir effect caused by a charged and massive scalar field that violates Lorentz symmetry in an aether-like and CPT even manner, by direct coupling between the field derivatives and two fixed orthogonal unit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 Andrea Erdas

In this paper the quantum vacuum energies induced by massive fluctuations of one real scalar field on a configuration of two partially transparent plates are analysed. The physical properties of the infinitely thin plates are characterized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-17 Jose M. Munoz-Castaneda , J. Mateos Guilarte , A. Moreno Mosquera

This is the second paper in a series of four in which we use space adiabatic methods in order to incorporate backreactions among the homogeneous and between the homogeneous and inhomogeneous degrees of freedom in quantum cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-20 J. Neuser , S. Schander , T. Thiemann

We propose an approach for investigation of interaction of thin material films with quantum electrodynamic fields. Using main principles of quantum electrodynamics (locality, gauge invariance, renormalizability) we construct a single model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Markov , Yu. M. Pis'mak

A new concise method is presented for the calculation of the ground-state energy of the electromagnetic field and matter field interacting system. With the assumption of squeezed-like state, a new vacuum state is obtained for the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Li Tongzhong