The Casimir effect for the Bose-Gas in Slabs

Philippe A. Martin , Valentin Zagrebnov (1, 2)

1 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 6207
2 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332

We study the Casimir effect for the perfect Bose-gase in the slab geometry for various boundary conditions. We show that the grand canonical potential per unit area at the bulk critical chemical potential $\mu=0$ has the standard asymptotic form with universal Casimir terms.

Domaines: Mécanique statistique [cond-mat.stat-mech]

Philippe A. Martin, Valentin Zagrebnov. The Casimir effect for the Bose-Gas in Slabs. EPL - Europhysics Letters, 2006, 73. ⟨hal-00133305⟩