Archimedes force on Casimir apparatus

DOI10.1142/S0217732316501662MaRDI QIDQ2827973zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Efim Shevrin, Vladimir Shevchenko

Publication date 24 October 2016

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03383

zbMATH Keywords

weak gravitational fieldArchimedes forceCasimir apparatus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17)

Abstract: We address a problem of Casimir apparatus in dense medium and weak gravitational field. The falling of the apparatus has to be governed by the equivalence principle, with proper account for contributions to the weight of the apparatus from its material part and from distorted quantum fields. We discuss general expression for the corresponding force in metric with cylindrical symmetry. By way of example we compute explicit expression for Archimedes force, acting on the Casimir apparatus of finite size, immersed into thermal bath of free scalar field. It is shown that besides universal term, proportional to the volume of the apparatus, there are non-universal quantum corrections, depending on the boundary conditions.

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