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We study a coupled system that describes the interacting dynamics between a bulk field, confined to a finite region with timelike boundary, and a boundary observable. In our system the dynamics of the boundary observable prescribes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-14 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Ricardo Weder

Using recently developed techniques based on scattering theory, we find the electromagnetic Casimir energy for geometries involving semi-infinite planes, a case that is of particular interest in the design of microelectromechanical devices.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-20 Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Noah Graham

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

We consider the Casimir interaction between two spheres in $(D+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime due to the vacuum fluctuations of scalar fields. We consider combinations of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The TGTG formula of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 L. P. Teo

We discuss corrections to the Casimir effect at finite temperature and effective field theory. Recently, it has been shown that effective field theories can reproduce radiative corrections to the Casimir energy calculated in full QED. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Jens O. Andersen

We show that in theory it is possible to obtain a Casimir interaction potential that varies with distance as 1/r. We achieve this by invoking hypothetical particles having a harmonic oscillator interaction potential. The derivation…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-13 Bo E. Sernelius

Recent work in the literature has studied rigid Casimir cavities in a weak gravitational field, or in de Sitter spacetime, or yet other spacetime models. The present review paper studies the difficult problem of direct evaluation of scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-03 Giampiero Esposito , George M. Napolitano

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 2016-11-09 Kimball A. Milton

In the present study, the zero- and first-order radiative correction to the Casimir energy for the massive and massless scalar field confined with mixed (Neumann-Dirichlet) boundary condition between two parallel lines in 2+1 dimensions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 M. A. Valuyan

We discuss the formalism of Balian and Duplantier for the calculation of the Casimir energy for an arbitrary smooth compact surface, and use it to give some examples: a finite cylinder with hemispherical caps, the torus, ellipsoid of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-16 Joseph P. Straley , Eugene B. Kolomeisky

In this paper, the first order radiative correction to the Casimir energy for a massive scalar field in the $\phi^4$ theory on a spherical surface with $S^2$ topology was calculated. In common methods for calculating the radiative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-17 M. A. Valuyan

In this paper we examine the Casimir effect for charged fields in presence of external magnetic field. We consider scalar field (connected with spinless particles) and the Dirac field (connected with 1/2-spin particles). In both cases we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcin Ostrowski

The electromagnetic Casimir energies of a spherical and a cylindrical cavity are analyzed semiclassically. The field theoretical self-stress of a spherical cavity with ideal metallic boundary conditions is reproduced to better than 1%. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Schaden

We study a variety of finite quasiperiodic configurations with magnetodielectric $\delta$-function plates created from simple substitution rules. While previous studies for $N$ bodies involved interactions mediated by a scalar field, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Venkat Abhignan

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 investigate Casimir effect as well as thermal Casimir effect for a pair of parallel perfectly plates placed in general stationary space-time background. It is found that the Casimir energy is influenced by the 00-component of metric and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Anwei Zhang

In this paper we sum over the spherical modes appearing in the expression for the Casimir energy of a conducting sphere and of a dielectric ball (assuming the same speed of light inside and outside), before doing the frequency integration.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 I. Klich

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 compute the first radiative correction to the Casimir energy in the $(d+1)$-dimensional $\lambda|\phi|^{4}$ model submitted to quasi-periodic boundary conditions in one spatial direction. Our results agree with the ones found in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 F. A. Barone , R. M. Cavalcanti , C. Farina

In this work we calculate the functional generator of the Green's functions of the Kalb-Ramond field in 3+1 dimensions. We also calculate the functional generator, and corresponding Casimir energy, of the same field when it is submitted to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 F. A. Barone , L. M. De Moraes , J. A. Helayel-Neto