Casimir Physics and Applications

Abstract

Casimir physics encompasses all phenomena that are due to quantum field fluctuations innontrivial backgrounds, which might be gravitational, curved space, electromagnetic (backgroundfields or dielectric materials) [...]

The Horava–Lifshitz modifications of the Casimir effect at finite temperature revisited

“…( 10), the exponents of the plate distance such as −(2zn+3), −(2z+1), −(2zn+2z+1) and −(2zn+1) are negative. When the parallel plates move away from each other, we discover that lim a−→∞ f C = 0 (11) which is favored by the measurements. The Casimir force per unit area at finite temperature is shown in Fig.…”

“…The attractive Casimir force between two parallel plates was varied experimentally by Sparnaay [5]. Further, the precision in measuring the Casimir effect has been greatly improved experimentally, and more precise measurements have been performed [5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. The characteristics of the Casimir effect, including the sign of the Casimir energy and the nature of the Casimir force, have been discussed in many contexts, because the Casimir effect is involved in various factors including the boundaries, the structure of spacetime, the topologically nontrivial backgrounds, some types of quantum field theory, and temperature [8,[12][13][14][15].…”

The Casimir effect for the scalar and Elko fields in a Lifshitz-like field theory

“…, (7) with μ ξ ≡ m 1−ξ . The annihilation and creation operators a n (k) and a † n (k) obey the following commutation relations…”

“…Experimentally, the Casimir effect was verified at the micrometer scale by Al plates in 1958 [4], and layers of Cu and Au in 1997 [5]. A modern review of experimental methods, issues, precisions and realistic measures is presented in [6,7]. Once that several factors can modify the zero energy, the Casimir force depends on many parameters: as the geometry and the boundary [8][9][10], the type of field studied [10][11][12], and the presence of extra-dimensions [13].…”

The Casimir effect for the scalar and Elko fields in a Lifshitz-like field theory

“…Experimentally, the Casimir effect was verified at micrometer scale by Al plates in 1958 [4], and layers of Cu and Au in 1997 [5]. A modern review of experimental methods, issues, precisions and realistic measures is present in [6,7]. Once that the zero energy can be modified by several factors, the Casimir force depends on many parameters, as the geometry and the boundary [8][9][10], the type of field studied [10,11,13], and the presence of extra-dimensions [14].…”