Casimir effect with a helix torus boundary condition

Abstract

We use the generalized Chowla-Selberg formula to consider the Casimir effect of a scalar field with a helix torus boundary condition in the flat ($D+1$)-dimensional spacetime. We obtain the exact results of the Casimir energy density and pressure for any $D$ for both massless and massive scalar fields. The numerical calculation indicates that once the topology of spacetime is fixed, the ratio of the sizes of the helix will be a decisive factor. There is a critical value $r_{crit}$ of the ratio $r$ of the lengths at which the pressure vanishes. The pressure changes from negative to positive as the ratio $r$ passes through $r_{crit}$ increasingly. In the massive case, we find the pressure tends to the result of massless field when the mass approaches zero. Furthermore, there is another critical ratio of the lengths $r_{crit}^{\prime }$ and the pressure is independent of the mass at $r=r_{crit}^{\prime }$ in the D=3 case.

11 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Mod. Phys. Lett. A

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