Casimir effect with quantized charged spinor matter in background magnetic field
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Abstract
We study the influence of a background uniform magnetic field and boundary conditions on the vacuum of a quantized charged spinor matter field confined between two parallel neutral plates; the magnetic field is directed orthogonally to the plates. The admissible set of boundary conditions at the plates is determined by the requirement that the Dirac Hamiltonian operator be self-adjoint. It is shown that, in the case of a sufficiently strong magnetic field and a sufficiently large separation of the plates, the generalized Casimir force is repulsive, being independent of the choice of a boundary condition, as well as of the distance between the plates. The detection of this effect seems to be feasible in the foreseeable future.
Date Issued
2015-04-09
Publication Type
Article
Subject(s)
Language(s)
en
Author(s)
Sitenko, Yu. A. |
Journal
Physical review. D - particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
Publisher
American Physical Society
ISSN
1550-7998
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