scholarly journals Some developments of the Casimir effect in p-cavity of (D + 1)-dimensional space–time

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (30) ◽  
pp. 1430068 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang-Hua Zhai ◽  
Rui-Hui Lin ◽  
Chao-Jun Feng ◽  
Xin-Zhou Li

The Casimir effect for rectangular boxes has been studied for several decades. But there are still some unclear points. Recently, there are new developments related to this topic, including the demonstration of the equivalence of the regularization methods and the clarification of the ambiguity in the regularization of the temperature-dependent free energy. Also, the interesting quantum spring was raised stemming from the topological Casimir effect of the helix boundary conditions. We review these developments together with the general derivation of the Casimir energy of the p-dimensional cavity in (D + 1)-dimensional space–time, paying special attention to the sign of the Casimir force in a cavity with unequal edges. In addition, we also review the Casimir piston, which is a configuration related to rectangular cavity.

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (08) ◽  
pp. 1950035
Author(s):  
Chun Yong Chew ◽  
Yong Kheng Goh

We study the electromagnetic Casimir interaction energy between two parallel concentric cylinders in [Formula: see text]-dimensional Minkowski space–time for different combinations of perfectly conducting boundary condition and infinitely permeable boundary condition. We consider two cases where one cylinder is outside each other and where one is inside the other. By solving the equation of motion and computing the TGTG formulas, explicit formulas for the Casimir interaction energy can be derived and asymptotic behavior of the Casimir interaction energy in the nanoregime is calculated by using perturbation technique. We computed the interaction energy analytically up to next-to-leading order term.


1991 ◽  
Vol 06 (16) ◽  
pp. 1453-1457 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. ZAIKOV

It is shown that in D = 3 space-time dimensions there exist a topological term for the bosonic strings. The corresponding constraints satisfy the same Virasoro algebra as the ordinary bosonic strings. These results are generalized for an arbitrary dimensional space-time if we have SO (1, 2) ⊗ O (D − 3) or SO (3) ⊗ O (1, D − 4) symmetry instead of SO (1, D − 1) space-time symmetry. A gauge-dependent correction to the Casimir energy corresponding to this topological term is derived.


2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (09) ◽  
pp. 669-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIANG-HUA ZHAI ◽  
XIN-ZHOU LI ◽  
CHAO-JUN FENG

The Casimir effect for a massless scalar field on the helix boundary condition which is named as quantum spring is studied in our recent paper.27 Here, the Casimir effect of the quantum spring is investigated in (D+1)-dimensional spacetime for the massless and massive scalar fields by using the zeta function techniques. We obtain the exact results of the Casimir energy and Casimir force for any D, which indicate a Z2 symmetry of the two space dimensions. The Casimir energy and Casimir force have different expressions for odd and even dimensional space in the massless case but in both cases the force is attractive. In the case of odd-dimensional space, the Casimir energy density can be expressed by the Bernoulli numbers, while in the even case it can be expressed by the ζ-function. And we also show that the Casimir force has a maximum value which depends on the spacetime dimensions. In particular, for a massive scalar field, we found that the Casimir force varies as the mass of the field changes.


1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (34) ◽  
pp. 2353-2361 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. M. DE PAOLA ◽  
R. B. RODRIGUES ◽  
N. F. SVAITER

The zero-point energy of a massless fermion field in the interior of two parallel plates in a D-dimensional space–time at zero temperature is calculated. In order to regularize the model, a mix between dimensional and zeta-function regularization procedure is used and it is found that the regularized zero-point energy density is finite for any number of space–time dimensions. We present a general expression for the Casimir energy of the fermionic field in such a situation.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitaly Kuyukov

Many approaches to quantum gravity consider the revision of the space-time geometry and the structure of elementary particles. One of the main candidates is string theory. It is possible that this theory will be able to describe the problem of hierarchy, provided that there is an appropriate Calabi-Yau geometry. In this paper we will proceed from the traditional view on the structure of elementary particles in the usual four-dimensional space-time. The only condition is that quarks and leptons should have a common emerging structure. When a new formula for the mass of the hierarchy is obtained, this structure arises from topological quantum theory and a suitable choice of dimensional units.


2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (08) ◽  
pp. 1179-1196 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTÍN G. RICHARTE ◽  
CLAUDIO SIMEONE

We study spherically symmetric thin shell wormholes in a string cloud background in (3 + 1)-dimensional space–time. The amount of exotic matter required for the construction, the traversability and the stability of such wormholes under radial perturbations are analyzed as functions of the parameters of the model. In addition, in the appendices a nonperturbative approach to the dynamics and a possible extension of the analysis to a related model are briefly discussed.


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