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The Casimir effect for thick pistons

Guglielmo Fucci

Department of Mathematics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X16500123Cited by:1 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

In this work, we analyze the Casimir energy and force for a thick piston configuration. This study is performed by utilizing the spectral zeta function regularization method. The results we obtain for the Casimir energy and force depend explicitly on the parameters that describe the general self-adjoint boundary conditions imposed. Numerical results for the Casimir force are provided for specific types of boundary conditions and are also compared to the corresponding force on an infinitely thin piston.

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PACS: 03.70.+k, 02.30.Lt

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