Classical limit of the Casimir entropy for scalar massless field

S. Rubin; J. Feinberg; A. Mann; M. Revzen

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2007.06.026

Classical limit of the Casimir entropy for scalar massless field

S. Rubin, J. Feinberg, A. Mann, M. Revzen

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Abstract

We study the Casimir effect at finite temperature for a massless scalar field in the parallel plates geometry in N spatial dimensions, under various combinations of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on the plates. We show that in all these cases the entropy, in the limit where energy equipartitioning applies, is a geometrical factor whose sign determines the sign of the Casimir force.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	335-345
Number of pages	11
Journal	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume	384
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2007.06.026
State	Published - 15 Oct 2007

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The generous financial support of the Technion is gratefully acknowledged by S.R.

Keywords

Casimir effect
Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions
Entropy
Scalar field

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Statistics and Probability
Condensed Matter Physics

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