Casimir effect with a helix torus boundary condition

DOI10.1142/S0217732311036309zbMATH Open1274.81210arXiv1107.4846OpenAlexW3102727581MaRDI QIDQ2861679FDOQ2861679

Authors: Xiang-Hua Zhai, Xin-Zhou Li, Chao-Jun Feng 

Publication date: 11 November 2013

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

Abstract: We use the generalized Chowla-Selberg formula to consider the Casimir effect of a scalar field with a helix torus boundary condition in the flat ($D+1$)-dimensional spacetime. We obtain the exact results of the Casimir energy density and pressure for any $D$ for both massless and massive scalar fields. The numerical calculation indicates that once the topology of spacetime is fixed, the ratio of the sizes of the helix will be a decisive factor. There is a critical value $r_{crit}$ of the ratio $r$ of the lengths at which the pressure vanishes. The pressure changes from negative to positive as the ratio $r$ passes through $r_{crit}$ increasingly. In the massive case, we find the pressure tends to the result of massless field when the mass approaches zero. Furthermore, there is another critical ratio of the lengths $r_{crit}^{prime}$ and the pressure is independent of the mass at $r=r_{crit}^{prime}$ in the D=3 case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4846

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zbMATH Keywords

zeta functionboundary conditionCasimir effectChowla-Selberg formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Initial-boundary value problems for linear higher-order PDEs (35G16) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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