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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

Moving mirrors as analogue sources of Hawking radiation from black holes have been explored extensively, less so with cosmological particle creation (CPC), even though the analogy between dynamical Casimir effect (DCE) and CPC based on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-26 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

We have studied in a previous work the quantization of a mixed bulk-boundary system describing the coupled dynamics between a bulk quantum field confined to a spacetime with finite space slice and with timelike boundary, and a boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-12 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Ricardo Weder

Dirichlet boundary conditions on a surface can be imposed on a scalar field, by coupling it quadratically to a $\delta$-like potential, the strength of which tends to infinity. Neumann conditions, on the other hand, require the introduction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

A boundary undergoing relativistic motion can create particles from quantum vacuum fluctuations in a phenomenon known as the dynamical Casimir effect. We examine the creation of particles, and more generally the transformation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Maximilian P. E. Lock , Ivette Fuentes

We study theoretically the dynamical Casimir effect in an exciton-polariton condensate that is suddenly created by an ultrashort laser pulse at normal incidence. As a consequence of the abrupt change of the quantum vacuum, Bogoliubov…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 Selma Koghee , Michiel Wouters

The Casimir effect, reflecting quantum vacuum fluctuations in the electromagnetic field in a region with material boundaries, has been studied both theoretically and experimentally since 1948. The forces between dielectric and metallic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Iver Brevik , Simen A. Ellingsen , Kimball A. Milton

Schwinger's Dynamical Casimir Effect is one of several candidate explanations for sonoluminescence. Recently, several papers have claimed that Schwinger's estimate of the Casimir energy involved is grossly inaccurate. In this letter, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Carl E. Carlson , Carmen Molina--Paris , Juan Perez--Mercader , Matt Visser

The trace of a function of a Schrodinger operator minus the same for the Laplacian can be expressed in terms of the determinant of its scattering matrix. The naive formula for this determinant is divergent. Using a dispersion relation, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-13 S. G. Rajeev

Real photon pairs can be created in a dynamic cavity with periodically modulated refractive index of the constituent media or oscillating boundaries. This effect is called Dynamic Casimir effect (DCE), which represents one of the most…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-06 Shaojie Ma , Haixing Miao , Yuanjiang Xiang , Shuang Zhang

Chimera states have attracted significant attention as symmetry-broken states exhibiting the unexpected coexistence of coherence and incoherence. Despite the valuable insights gained from analyzing specific systems, an understanding of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-03-10 Yuanzhao Zhang , Adilson E. Motter

We study quantum dissipative effects that result from the non-relativistic motion of an atom, coupled to a quantum real scalar field, in the presence of a static imperfect mirror. Our study consists of two parts: in the first, we consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 M. Belen Farias , C. D. Fosco , Fernando C. Lombardo , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

We revisit the Casimir effect for two concentric spherical shells in de Sitter background with a new geometric configuration, namely Euclidean signature between and Lorentzian signature outside the spheres with different cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-03 F. Darabi

We study a Casimir-like behaviour in a "deformed QCD". We demonstrate that for the system defined on a manifold of size L the difference Delta E between the energies of a system in a non-trivial background and Minkowski space-time geometry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Evan Thomas , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

The transition from quantum to classical, in the case of a quantum harmonic oscillator, is typically identified with the transition from a quantum superposition of macroscopically distinguishable states, such as the Schr\"odinger cat state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Janika Paavola , Michael J. W. Hall , Matteo G. A. Paris , Sabrina Maniscalco

Using the covariant electromagnetic Casimir effect (previously introduced for real conducting cylindrical shells [1]), the Casimir force experienced by a spherical shell, under Dirichlet boundary condition, is calculated. The…

General Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 H. Razmi , M. Abtahi

We use a functional approach to the Casimir effect in order to evaluate the exact vacuum energy for a real scalar field in $d+1$ dimensions, in the presence of backgrounds that, in a particular limit, impose Dirichlet boundary conditions on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

We study the consequences of dissipation in homogeneous media when the system is subject to a sudden change, thereby producing pairs of correlated quasi-particles with opposite momenta. We compute both the modifications of the spectrum, and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-09-04 Xavier Busch , Renaud Parentani

The decoherence induced on a single qubit by its interaction with the environment is studied. The environment is modelled as a scalar two-level boson system that can go through either first order or continuous excited state quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Perez-Fernandez , A. Relano , J. M. Arias , J. Dukelsky , J. E. Garcia-Ramos

The Casimir effect, arising from vacuum quantum fluctuations, plays a fundamental role in the development of modern quantum electrodynamics. In parallel, the field of condensed matter has flourished through the discovery of various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Zixuan Dai , Qing-Dong Jiang