Casimir energy for a purely dielectric cylinder by the mode summation method

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.06.073MaRDI QIDQ451832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors August Romeo, Kimball A. Milton

Publication date 25 September 2012

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0504207

zbMATH Keywords

mode summation methodpurely dielectric cylinder

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

Abstract: We use the mode summation method together with zeta-function regularization to compute the Casimir energy of a dilute dielectric cylinder. The method is very transparent, and sheds light on the reason the resulting energy vanishes.

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