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Schwinger's method for the fermionic Casimir effect at finite temperature

โœ Scribed by M. V. Cougo-Pinto; C. Farina; A. Tort

Publisher
Springer
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
147 KB
Volume
38
Category
Article
ISSN
0377-9017

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โœฆ Synopsis

The Casimir energy of a massive Dirac field at finite temperature and confined between two parallel infinite plates is computed using a method proposed by Schwinger. The boundary conditions are those of zero current through the plates, as inspired by quark confinement in the MIT bag model for hadrons. We use Schwinger's original regularization by a cutoff in proper-time. We comment on the analytical continuation method of regularization, which allows the employment of Epstein function techniques, and on the different possible expressions for the final answer.

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Vacuum fluctuations of massless fermions between two parallel and confining plates give rise to an attractive Casimir force at zero temperature. It becomes repulsive at sufficiently high temperatures. All thermodynamic quantities are given by the free energy which satisfies a remarkable symmetry und