Nonperturbative Casimir effects: Vacuum structure, Confinement, and Chiral Symmetry Breaking

TL;DR

This paper reviews how boundaries influence vacuum structure, phase transitions, and symmetry breaking in confining gauge theories and fermion systems, highlighting the role of Casimir effects in these phenomena.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of nonperturbative Casimir effects on vacuum restructuring, phase transitions, and symmetry breaking in strongly interacting systems.

Findings

Casimir plates affect chiral and deconfinement phase transitions

Mass scale shifts are linked to dynamical and geometrical factors

Vacuum and matter restructuring are influenced by boundary conditions

Abstract

The review of vacuum and matter restructuring in space-time with boundaries is presented. We consider phase properties of confining gauge theories and strongly interacting fermion systems. In particular, the chiral and deconfinement phase transitions properties in the presence of Casimir plates. We also discuss mass scale shifts in such systems and their possible dynamical and geometrical nature.