Massive scalar Casimir interaction beyond proximity force approximation
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Publication:3465062
DOI10.1142/S0217751X15501675zbMATH Open1329.81342arXiv1506.07277OpenAlexW3100208797MaRDI QIDQ3465062FDOQ3465062
Authors: L. P. Teo 
Publication date: 28 January 2016
Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Since massive scalar field plays an important role in theoretical physics, we consider the interaction between a sphere and a plate due to the vacuum fluctuation of a massive scalar field. We consider combinations of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. There is a simple prescription to obtain the functional formulas for the Casimir interaction energies, known as TGTG formula, for the massive interactions from the massless interactions. From the TGTG formulas, we discuss how to compute the small separation asymptotic expansions of the Casimir interaction energies up to the next-to-leading order terms. Unlike the massless case, the results could not be expressed as simple algebraic expressions, but instead could only be expressed as infinite sums over some integrals. Nonetheless, it is easy to show that one can obtain the massless limits which agree with previously established results. We also show that the leading terms agree with that derive using proximity force approximation. The dependence of the leading order terms and the next-to-leading order terms on the mass of the scalar field is studied both numerically and analytically. In particular, we derive the small mass asymptotic expansions of these terms. Surprisingly, the small mass asymptotic expansions are quite complicated as they contain terms that are of odd powers in mass as well as logarithms of mass terms.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07277
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