The Casimir Effect from a Condensed Matter Perspective
L. Palova, P. Chandra, P. Coleman
TL;DR
This paper reexamines the Casimir effect using condensed matter physics methods, highlighting its relevance in microelectromechanical systems and providing new insights through analogies with many-body physics.
Contribution
It introduces a condensed matter perspective to the Casimir effect, recovering known results and exploring new implications through analogies.
Findings
Reinterpreted the Casimir effect using condensed matter techniques
Connected vacuum fluctuations to many-body physics concepts
Discussed implications for microelectromechanical systems
Abstract
The Casimir effect, a key observable realization of vacuum fluctuations, is usually taught in graduate courses on quantum field theory. The growing importance of Casimir forces in microelectromechanical systems motivates this subject as a topic for graduate many-body physics courses. To this end, we revisit the Casimir effect using methods common in condensed matter physics. We recover previously derived results and explore the implications of the analogies implicit in this treatment.
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