Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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975357 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2007 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
We study the Casimir effect at finite temperature for a massless scalar field in the parallel plates geometry in N spatial dimensions, under various combinations of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions on the plates. We show that in all these cases the entropy, in the limit where energy equipartitioning applies, is a geometrical factor whose sign determines the sign of the Casimir force.
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Authors
S. Rubin, J. Feinberg, A. Mann, M. Revzen,