Casimir force on a piston

Details Casimir force on a piston Casimir force on a piston

2003-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310184v2

Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 065015

Physics

Quantum Physics

10 pages, 1 figure. Final version, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.69.065015

We consider a massless scalar field obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions on the walls of a two-dimensional L x b rectangular box, divided by a movable partition (piston) into two compartments of dimensions a x b and (L-a) x b. We compute the Casimir force on the piston in the limit L -> infinity. Regardless of the value of a/b, the piston is attracted to the nearest end of the box. Asymptotic expressions for the Casimir force on the piston are derived for a << b and a >> b.

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