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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

After a review of the standard calculation of the Casimir force between two metallic plates at zero and non-zero temperatures, we present the study of microscopic models to determine the large-distance asymptotic force in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Ph. A. Martin , P. R. Buenzli

We derive the gravitonic Casimir effect with non-idealised boundary conditions. This allows the quantification of the gravitonic contribution to the Casimir effect from real bodies. We quantify the meagreness of the gravitonic Casimir…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-27 James Q. Quach

We compute the finite temperature Casimir energy for massive scalar field with general curvature coupling subject to Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on the walls of a closed cylinder with arbitrary cross section, located in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 L. P. Teo

In this article, we obtain the explicit expression of the Casimir energy for 2-dimensional Clifford-Klein space forms in terms of the geometrical data of the underlying spacetime with the help of zeta-regularization techniques. The…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Ksenia Fedosova , Julie Rowlett , Genkai Zhang

A perfectly reflecting (Dirichlet) boundary condition at the edge of an impenetrable magnetic-flux-carrying tube of nonzero transverse size is imposed on the charged massive scalar matter field which is quantized outside the tube. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-06 V. M. Gorkavenko , Yu. A. Sitenko , O. B. Stepanov

We use zeta function techniques to give a finite definition for the Casimir energy of an arbitrary ultrastatic spacetime with or without boundaries. We find that the Casimir energy is intimately related to, but not identical to, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Steven K. Blau , Matt Visser , Andreas Wipf

We reexamine the Casimir effect for the rectangular cavity with two or three equal edges in the presence of compactified universal extra dimension. We derive the expressions for the Casimir energy and discuss the nature of Casimir force. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Hongbo Cheng

The Casimir force provides a striking example of the effects of quantum fluctuations in a mesoscopic system. Because it arises from the objects' electromagnetic response, the necessary calculations in quantum field theory are most naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Giuseppe Bimonte , Thorsten Emig , Noah Graham , Mehran Kardar

The Casimir effect arises when long-ranged fluctuations are geometrically confined between two surfaces, leading to a macroscopic force. Traditionally, these forces have been observed in quantum systems and near critical points in classical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-19 Justin C. Burton , Juan-José Liétor-Santos

The Casimir force follows from quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field and yields a nonlinear attractive force between closely spaced conductive objects. Measuring the Casimir force in superconducting materials on either side of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Matthijs H. J. de Jong , Evren Korkmazgil , Louise Banniard , Mika A. Sillanpää , Laure Mercier de Lépinay

The Casimir effect for rectangular boxes has been studied for several decades. But there are still some points unclear. Recently, there are new developments related to this topic, including the demonstration of the equivalence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-03 Xiang-Hua Zhai , Rui-Hui Lin , Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li

This paper extends our recent study on Casimir friction forces for dielectric plates moving parallel to each other [J. S. H{\o}ye and I. Brevik, Eur. Phys. J. D {\bf 68}, 61 (2014)], to the case where the plates are no longer restricted to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Johan S. Høye , Iver Brevik

We discuss repulsive Casimir forces between dielectric materials with non trivial magnetic susceptibility. It is shown that considerations based on naive pair-wise summation of Van der Waals and Casimir Polder forces may not only give an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Kenneth , I. Klich , A. Mann , M. Revzen

The Casimir force between parallel lines in a theory describing condensed vortices in a plane is determined. We make use of the relation between a Chern-Simons-Higgs model and its dualized version, which is expressed in terms of a dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-04 J. F. de Medeiros Neto , Rudnei O. Ramos , Carlos Rafael M. Santos

In this work, we derive exact self-consistent solutions to the gap equations of the $\mathbb{C}P^{N-1}$ model on a finite interval with Dirichlet boundary conditions in the large-$N$ approximation. The solution reproduce the confining phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-15 Antonino Flachi , Muneto Nitta , Satoshi Takada , Ryosuke Yoshii

For the Casimir piston filled with an inhomogeneous medium, the Casimir energy is regularized and expressed with cylinder kernel coefficients by using the first-order perturbation theory. When the refraction index of the medium is smoothly…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Fanglin Bao , Bin Luo , Sailing He

We show that Casimir-force calculations for a finite number of non-overlapping obstacles can be mapped onto quantum-mechanical billiard-type problems which are characterized by the scattering of a fictitious point particle off the very same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreas Wirzba

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

Starting from the construction of the free quantum scalar field of mass $m\geq 0$ we give mathematically precise and rigorous versions of three different approaches to computing the Casimir forces between compact obstacles. We then prove…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Yan-Long Fang , Alexander Strohmaier