On the Direction of Casimir Forces

Details On the Direction of Casimir Forces On the Direction of Casimir Forces

2008-08-28

arxiv.org/abs/0808.3966v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 102, 060402 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 1 figure

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The Casimir force due to a massless scalar field satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions may attract or repel a piston in the neck of a flask-like container. Using the world-line formalism this behavior is related to the competing contribution to the interaction energy of two types of Brownian bridges. It qualitatively is also expected from attractive long-range two-body forces between constituents of the boundary. A geometric subtraction scheme is presented that avoids divergent contributions to the interaction energy and classifies the Brownian bridges that contribute to the force. These are all of finite length and the Casimir force can be analyzed and in principle accurately computed without resorting to regularization or analytic continuation. The world-line analysis is robust with respect to variations in the shape of the piston and the flask and the analogy with long-range forces suggests that neutral atoms and particles are also drawn into open-ended pipes (or nano-tubes) by Casimir forces of electromagnetic origin.

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