The Casimir Force in a Lorentz Violating Theory

Jul, 2006
20 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 74 (2006) 033016
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Report number:
  • CUMQ-HEP-141

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Abstract:
We study the effects of the minimal extension of the standard model including Lorentz violation on the Casimir force between two parallel conducting plates in vacuum. We provide explicit solutions for the electromagnetic field using scalar field analogy, for both the cases in which the Lorentz violating terms come from the CPT-even or CPT-odd terms. We also calculate the effects of the Lorentz violating terms for a fermion field between two parallel conducting plates and analyze the modifications of the Casimir force due to the modifications of the Dirac equation. In all cases under consideration, the standard formulas for the Casimir force are modified by either multiplicative or additive correction factors, the latter case exhibiting different dependence on the distance between the plates.
  • 12.20.Fv
  • 11.30.Cp
  • vacuum energy
  • Lorentz violation
  • quantum electrodynamics
  • Casimir force
  • gauge field theory: SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1)
  • violation: Lorentz
  • force: Casimir
  • quantum electrodynamics