Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT09): Proceedings of the 9th Conference, Devoted to the Centenary of H B G Casimir, University of Oklahoma, USA, 21-25 Septmeber 2009

by Milton, Kimball A.; Bordag, Michael

• ISBN13: 9789814289856
• ISBN10: 981428985X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-30
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

QFEXT is the leading international conference held every two years, highlighting progress in quantum vacuum energy phenomena, the Casimir effect, and related topics, both experimentally and theoretically.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Organizing Committee	p. xvii
Schedule of Talks	p. xix
Calculations of Casimir Forces
Casimir Forces Between Spheres and Loop Integrals	p. 1
Analytic Corrections to the Electromagnetic Casimir Interaction Between a Sphere and a Plate at Short Distances	p. 6
Casimir Physics: Geometry, Shape and Material	p. 12
Semitransparent Pistons	p. 33
Using Boundary Methods to Compute the Casimir Energy	p. 38
Electromagnetic Non-contact Gears: Prelude	p. 48
The Scattering Approach to the Casimir Force	p. 55
Scalar Casimir Energies for Separable Coordinate Systems: Application to Semi-transparent Planes in an Annulus	p. 68
Measurement of Casimir Forces
Demonstrating the Strong Geometry Dependence of the Casimir Force on a Surface with Deep, Nanoscale Corrugations	p. 76
New Results for the Casimir Interaction: Sample Characterization and Low Temperature Measurements	p. 88
Casimir Force Experiments in Air: Two Birds with One Stone	p. 98
Experimental Features of the Recent Lateral Casimir Force Measurement	p. 109
Lateral Casimir-Polder Force Measurement Using Bose Einstein Condensates	p. 122
Repulsive Casimir and van der Waals Forces: From Measurements to Future Technologies	p. 127
Macroscopic Quantum Vacuum and Microscopic Gravitation	p. 137
The PVLAS Experiment and Its Results: Probing the Quantum Vacuum with Polarized Light and Magnetic Fields	p. 147
Thermal Casimir Effects
Thermal Casimir Effect for Conducting Plates and the Bohr-van Leeuwen Theorem	p. 153
Electromagnetic Casimir Effect in Wedge Geometry and the Energy-Momentum Tensor in Media	p. 158
Casimir-Polder Potential in Thermal Non-equilibrium	p. 178
Geometry-Temperature Interplay in the Casimir Effect	p. 178
Thermal Effects in the Magnetic Casimir-Polder Interaction	p. 194
Mode Contributions to the Casimir Effect	p. 199
Thermal Casimir Force Between Magnetic Materials	p. 204
The Casimir Effect and the Force Between Magnetic Materials	p. 214
Casimir-Lifshitz Forces and Entropy	p. 227
The Thermal Casimir Effect: Saturation	p. 234
Finite Temperature Casimir Effect in the Presence of Extra Dimensions	p. 244
Casimir Forces for Real Materials
The Role of Magnetoplasmons in Casimir Force Calculations	p. 249
Suspended Graphene Films and Their Casimir Interaction with Ideal Conductor	p. 255
Casimir Energy of Finite Width Mirrors: Renormalization, Self-interaction Limit and Lifshitz Formula	p. 260
Role of Surface States in the Casimir Force Between Semiconducting Films	p. 265
On the Casimir Entropy Between "Perfect Crystals"	p. 270
Theory of the Casimir Effect for Gratings	p. 280
The Role of the Surface Modes in the Casimir Repulsion Through Liquids	p. 289
Casimir Stress in and Force on a Metal Slab in a Planar Cavity	p. 294
Bose-Einstein Condensation in Quasi-2D Systems: Applications to High-Tc Superconductivity	p. 299
Casimir-Polder Forces
Noble Gas, Alkali and Alkaline Atoms Interacting with a Gold Surface	p. 304
Nonperturbative Access to Casimir-Polder Forces	p. 312
Graphene van der Waals Interactions with an Adatom and within a Double Layer	p. 317
Casimir-Polder Forces Between Two Accelerating Atoms and the Unruh Effect	p. 328
Dynamical Casimir Effect
Dynamical Casimir Effect with Robin Boundary Conditions in a Three Dimensional Open Cavity	p. 334
Theoretical Studies on Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Artificial Atom	p. 344
Critical Casimir Forces
Controlling and Harnessing Critical Casimir Forces	p. 349
Critical Casimir Forces Involving a Chemically Structured Substrate	p. 355
Gravitational Effects
Twistor-Beams and Holographic Structure of a Pre-quantum Kerr-Schild Geometry	p. 360
Repulsive Casimir Forces and Alternatives to Einsteinian Gravity	p. 365
Quantum Back Reaction to Asymptotically AdS Black Holes	p. 377
Topological Casimir Effect in Power-Law FRW Cosmologies	p. 383
The Trace Anomaly and Dynamical Vacuum Energy in Cosmology	p. 388
Quasi-black Holes and Lorentz-Abraham Electron in General Relativity	p. 408
Heat Kernels and Spectral Determinants
Worldline Approach to QFT on Manifolds with Boundary	p. 415
Vacuum Energy, Spectral Determinant and Heat Kernel Asymptotics of Graph Laplacians with General Vertex Matching Conditions	p. 421
Efficient Evaluation of Effective Action in Radial Backgrounds	p. 426
Local Measures of Convex Surfaces Induced by the Wiener Measure of Paths	p. 431
Energy Densities
Negative Energy Densities in Quantum Field Theory	p. 437
Vacuum Energy Density and Pressure Near Boundaries	p. 447
Solitons and Nanotubes
Local Analysis of the sine-Gordon Kink Quantum Fluctuations	p. 457
Quantum Fluctuations of Topological S3-Kinks	p. 465
Topological Casimir Effect in Nanotubes and Nanoloops	p. 470
Schwinger Effect and Quantum Electrodynamics
The Search for the Schwinger Effect: Nonperturbative Vacuum Pair Production	p. 475
On the Gravitationally Induced Schwinger Mechanism	p. 485
Quantum Statistics Effects for Schwinger Pair Production in Short Laser Pulses	p. 492
Scalar-Fermion Bound State with Finite Size Corrections	p. 497
Three-Loop Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian and Asymptotic Analysis in 1 + 1 QED	p. 505
Field Theory in Backgrounds
Characteristics of Gluon Plasma in Chromomagnetic Field at High Temperature	p. 513
Exact Formfactors in the One-Loop Curved-Space QED and the Nonlocal Multiplicative Anomaly	p. 518
Spin Light in Neutrino Transition Between Different Mass States	p. 528
Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Stability of the Magnetized Vacuum	p. 533
List of Participants	p. 538
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