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In this paper, we study the Casimir effect in a curved spacetime described by gravitational actions quadratic in the curvature. In particular, we consider the dynamics of a massless scalar field confined between two nearby plates and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-04 Luca Buoninfante , Gaetano Lambiase , Luciano Petruzziello , Antonio Stabile

The Casimir energy is evaluated for massless scalar fields under Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions, and for the electromagnetic field with perfect conductor boundary conditions on one and two infinite parallel plates moving by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Saharian , R. S. Davtyan , A. H. Yeranyan

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

The Casimir effect describes the attractive force arising due to quantum fluctuations of the vacuum electromagnetic field between closely spaced conducting plates. Traditionally, zeta-regularization is employed in calculations to address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Ching-Hsuan Yen

The finite temperature Casimir effect for a charged, massive scalar field confined between very large, perfectly conducting parallel plates is studied using the zeta function regularization technique. The scalar field satisfies Dirichlet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Andrea Erdas , Kevin P. Seltzer

We construct exact nonstatic nonhomogeneous spherically symmetric solutions in the theory of gravity with a scalar field possessing the exponential potential. The solution of particular interest corresponds to the scalar field with negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergey V. Sushkov , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

In the context of a model of space-time foam, made by $N$ wormholes we discuss the possibility of having a foam formed by different configurations. An equivalence between Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild-Anti-de Sitter wormholes in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Remo Garattini

The Casimir effect has been studied for various quantum fields in both flat and curved spacetimes. As a further step along this line, we provide an explicit derivation of Casimir effect for massless spin-3/2 field with periodic boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-19 Wenbiao Liu , Kui Xiao , Hongbao Zhang

A Casimir Wormhole is a Traversable Wormhole powered by a Casimir energy source within a static reference frame. A natural extension of this system is the inclusion of rotation. We will explore two basic configurations: one with radially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Remo Garattini , Athanasios G. Tzikas

A wormhole with a quantum throat on the basis of an approximate model of the spacetime foam is presented. An effective spinor field is introduced for the description of the spacetime foam. The consequences of such model of the wormhole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Dzhunushaliev

In this work, we consider a Yukawa modification of the Casimir wormhole. With the help of an Equation of State, we impose Zero Tidal Forces. We will examine two different approaches: in a first approach, we will fix the form of the shape…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-04 Remo Garattini

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

We investigate the conditions under which a rotating traversable wormhole can be supported by a Casimir source in the presence of an external electric field. Extending previous studies of static Casimir wormholes and neutral rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Remo Garattini , Athanasios G. Tzikas

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

Quantum vacuum energy has been known to have observable consequences since 1948 when Casimir calculated the force of attraction between parallel uncharged plates, a phenomenon confirmed experimentally with ever increasing precision. Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Kimball A. Milton

The Casimir stress on a spherical shell in de Sitter background for massless scalar field satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions on the shell is calculated. The metric is written in conformally flat form. Although the metric is time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. R. Setare , R. Mansouri

We introduce a general, simple and effective method of evaluating the zero point energy of a quantum field under the influence of arbitrary boundary conditions imposed on the field on flat surfaces perpendicular to a chosen spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. C. Santos , A. C. Tort

In this article, we consider the finite temperature Casimir effect in Kaluza-Klein spacetime due the the vacuum fluctuation of massless scalar field with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We consider the general case where the extra dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 L. P. Teo

In discussions of the cosmological constant, the Casimir effect is often invoked as decisive evidence that the zero point energies of quantum fields are "real''. On the contrary, Casimir effects can be formulated and Casimir forces can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. L. Jaffe

The Casimir effect, which predicts the emergence of an attractive force between two parallel, highly reflecting plates in vacuum, plays a vital role in various fields of physics, from quantum field theory and cosmology to nanophotonics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Daniel Hodgson , Christopher Burgess , M. Basil Altaie , Almut Beige , Robert Purdy