Electromagnetic Casimir effect on the boundary of a D-dimensional cavity and the high temperature asymptotics

DOI10.1063/1.4812560MaRDI QIDQ5407604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. P. Teo

Publication date 7 April 2014

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7557

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

Abstract: We consider the finite temperature Casimir stress acting on the boundary of a D>=3 dimensional cavity due to the vacuum fluctuations of electromagnetic fields. Both perfectly conducting and infinitely permeable boundary conditions are considered, and it is proved that they correspond mathematically to the relative and absolute boundary conditions. The divergence terms of the Casimir free energy are related to the heat kernel coefficients of the Laplace operator. It is shown that the Casimir stress is free of divergence if and only if D is exactly three. The high temperature asymptotics of the regularized Casimir free energy are also found to depend on the heat kernel coefficients. When D>3, renormalization is required to remove terms of order higher than or equal to T^2.

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