Casimir Effect in External Magnetic Field
Abstract
In this paper we examine the Casimir effect for charged fields in presence of external magnetic field. We consider scalar field (connected with spinless particles) and the Dirac field (connected with 1/2-spin particles). In both cases we describe quantum field using the canonical formalism. We obtain vacuum energy by direct solving field equations and using the mode summation method. In order to compute the renormalized vacuum energy we use the Abel--Plana formula.
- Publication:
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Acta Physica Polonica B
- Pub Date:
- June 2006
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0504112
- Bibcode:
- 2006AcPPB..37.1753O
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 12 pages, 9 figures