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We develop an exact method for computing the Casimir energy between arbitrary compact objects, either dielectrics or perfect conductors. The energy is obtained as an interaction between multipoles, generated by quantum current fluctuations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Emig , N. Graham , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar

Casimir forces are a manifestation of the change in the zero-point energy of the vacuum caused by the insertion of boundaries. We show how the Casimir force can be computed by consideration of the vacuum fluctuations that are suppressed by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-13 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley

We give a short review on the static and dynamical Casimir effects, recalling their historical prediction, as well as their more recent experimental verification. We emphasise on the central role played by so-called {\it dynamical boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-28 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Ricardo Weder

We study the Casimir effect for a parallel plate setup with one plate with dynamical edge mode (DEM) boundary conditions, and one plate with perfect electromagnetic conductor (PEMC) boundary conditions. In order to restore BRST invariance,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Jarne Devroe , David Dudal , Sebbe Stouten

Casimir force searches provide among the most sensitive laboratory probes of new short range interactions. Existing constraints rely almost exclusively on a single geometry. We show that Casimir geometry constitutes an independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 Xiaolin Ma , Volodymyr Takhistov , Hideo Iizuka

This work is a continuation of our papers from the last couple of years on the Casimir friction for a pair of particles at low relative velocity. The new element in the present analysis is to allow the media to be dense. Then the situation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Johan S. Høye , Iver Brevik

We consider the high temperature limit of the Casimir interaction between a Dirichlet sphere and a Dirichlet plate due to the vacuum fluctuations of a scalar field in $(D+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The high temperature leading…

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

The Casimir Effect is a physical manifestation of quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic vacuum. When two metal plates are placed closely together, typically much less than a micron, the long wavelength modes between them are frozen…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Alexander Stange , Matthias Imboden , Josh Javor , Lawrence K. Barrett , David J. Bishop

A Hamiltonian approach is introduced in order to address some severe problems associated with the physical description of the dynamical Casimir effect at all times. For simplicity, the case of a neutral scalar field in a one-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Jaume Haro , Emilio Elizalde

We present detailed calculations for the Casimir force between a plane and a nanostructured surface at finite temperature in the framework of the scattering theory. We then study numerically the effect of finite temperature as a function of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 R. Guérout , J. Lussange , H. B. Chan , A. Lambrecht , S. Reynaud

The impedance boundary condition is used to calculate the Casimir force in configurations of two parallel plates and a shpere (spherical lens) above a plate at both zero and nonzero temperature. The impedance approach allows one to find the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. B. Bezerra , G. L. Klimchitskaya , C. Romero

A new method based on the Monte-Carlo calculation on the lattice is proposed to study the Casimir effect in the noncompact lattice QED. We have studied the standard Casimir problem with two parallel plane surfaces (mirrors) and oblique…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-05-25 Oleg Pavlovsky , Maxim Ulybyshev

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

We present a concise review of selected parts of axion electrodynamics and its application to Casimir physics. We present the general formalism including the boundary conditions at a dielectric surface, derive the dispersion relation in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-20 I. Brevik , S. Pal , Y. Li , A. Gholamhosseinian , M. Boström

In previous works Suppes and de Barros used a pure particle model to derive interference effects, where individual photons have well-defined trajectories, and hence no wave properties. In the present paper we extend that description to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Patrick Suppes , Adonai S. Sant'Anna , J. Acacio de Barros

We derive a general expression for the Casimir energy corresponding to two flat parallel mirrors in d+1 dimensions, described by nonlocal interaction potentials. For a real scalar field, the interaction with the mirrors is implemented by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 C. D. Fosco , E. Losada

The Casimir force is calculated in the configuration of a spherical lens and a disc of finite radius covered by $Cu$ and $Au$ thin layers which was used in a recent experiment. The correction to the Casimir force due to finiteness of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , B. Geyer , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

Casimir forces of massive fermionic Dirac fields are calculated for parallel plates geometry in spatial space with dimension d and imposing bag model boundary conditions.It is shown that in the range of ma>>1 where m is mass of fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 Amir H. Abbassi &A. R. Sadre Momtaz

We compute the Casimir interaction between a plane and a sphere, the configuration employed in the most precise experiments. The scattering formula is developed by taking a suitably chosen plane-wave and multipole basis and is valid for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-16 Antoine Canaguier-Durand , Paulo A. Maia Neto , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

We introduce an efficient technique for computing Casimir energies and forces between objects of arbitrarily complex 3D geometries. In contrast to other recently developed methods, our technique easily handles non-spheroidal,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 M. T. Homer Reid , Alejandro W. Rodriguez , Jacob White , Steven G. Johnson