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In this paper, we use the formalism of finite-temperature quantum field theory to investigate the Casimir force between flat, ideally conductive surfaces containing confined, but mobile ions. We demonstrate that, in the Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Yu. A. Budkov , P. E. Brandyshev

We investigate the force acting between two parallel plates held at different temperatures. The force reproduces, as limiting cases, the well known Casimir-Lifshitz surface-surface force at thermal equilibrium and the surface-atom force out…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mauro Antezza , Lev P. Pitaevskii , Sandro Stringari , Vitaly B. Svetovoy

This work investigates the thermal Casimir effect associated with a massive spinor field defined on a four-dimensional flat space with a circularly compactified spatial dimension whose periodicity is oriented along a vector in $xy$-plane.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Joás Venâncio , Lameque Filho , Herondy Mota , Azadeh Mohammadi

This paper studies the Casimir effect due to fractional massless Klein-Gordon field confined to parallel plates. A new kind of boundary condition called fractional Neumann condition which involves vanishing fractional derivatives of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-31 C. H. Eab , S. C. Lim , L. P. Teo

We investigate the thermal Casimir interaction of a suspended graphene described by the Dirac model with a plate made of dielectric or metallic materials. The reflection coefficients on graphene expressed in terms of a temperature-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Bordag , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

The physical origin of the Casimir force is connected with the existence of zero-point and thermal fluctuations. The Casimir effect is very general and finds applications in various fields of physics. This review is limited to the rapid…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-18 G. L. Klimchitskaya , U. Mohideen , V. M. Mostepanenko

The temperature dependence of most solid-state properties is dominated by lattice vibrations, but metals display notable purely electronic effects at low temperature, such as the linear specific heat and the linear entropy, that were…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-15 Xavier Gonze , Christian Tantardini , Antoine Levitt

We discuss the Casimir effect for massless scalar fields subject to the Dirichlet boundary conditions on the parallel plates at finite temperature in the presence of one fractal extra compactified dimension. We obtain the Casimir energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Hongbo Cheng

We investigate the vacuum and thermal fluctuations of a neutral massless scalar field living in Minkowski spacetime and interacting with a finite number of point-like obstacles, modelled by zero-range potentials. The system is described…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Davide Fermi , Marco Gurgoglione

The microscopic theory of the Casimir effect in the dielectric is studied in the framework when absorption is realized via a reservoir modeled by a set of oscillators with continuously distributed frquencies with the aim to see if the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. A. Braun

The Casimir effect for parallel plates satisfying the Dirichlet boundary condition in the context of effective QED coming from a six-dimensional Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution of the Abelian Higgs model with fermions coupled to gravity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-26 Hongbo Cheng

Temperature correction to the Casimir force is considered for real metals at low temperatures. With the temperature decrease the mean free path for electrons becomes larger than the field penetration depth. In this condition description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. B. Svetovoy , M. V. Lokhanin

We study the Casimir effect with different temperatures between the plates ($T$) resp. outside of them ($T'$). If we consider the inner system as the black body radiation for a special geometry, then contrary to common belief the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Mitter , D. Robaschik

We consider a simple (1+1)-dimensional model for the Casimir-Polder interaction consisting of two oscillators coupled to a scalar field. We include dissipation in a first principles approach by allowing the oscillators to interact with heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 M. Bordag

We study the finite temperature Casimir interactions on two parallel boundaries in the anti-de Sitter spacetime AdS$_{D+1}$ induced by the vacuum fluctuations of a massive fermionic field with MIT bag boundary conditions. As in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 L. P. Teo

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

We study the thermalization of an elementary quantum system modeled by a two-level atom interacting with stationary electromagnetic fields out of thermal equilibrium near a dielectric slab. The slab is held at a temperature different from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

Quantum theory predicts the existence of the Casimir force between macroscopic bodies, due to the zero-point energy of electromagnetic field modes around them. This quantum fluctuation-induced force has been experimentally observed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-19 A. O. Sushkov , W. J. Kim , D. A. R. Dalvit , S. K. Lamoreaux

Starting from the Lifshitz formula for the Casimir force between parallel plates we calculate the difference between the forces at two different settings, one in which the temperature is $T_1=350$ K, the other when $T_2=300$ K. As material…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Brevik , J. B. Aarseth , J. S. Hoye , K. A. Milton

We investigate the role of surface plasmons in the electromagnetic Casimir effect at finite temperature, including situations out of global thermal equilibrium. The free energy is calculated analytically and expanded for different regimes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-05 F. Intravaia , H. Haakh , C. Henkel