Casimir energy of a cylindrical shell of elliptical cross section
arXiv:1403.3439 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.87.022503
Abstract
We calculate the increase in the number of modes (the Kac number) per unit length and the change in the zero-point energy (the Casimir energy) of the electromagnetic field resulting from the introduction of a thin perfectly conducting cylindrical shell of elliptical cross-section. Along the way we give a novel route to the calculation of these physical quantities. The Casimir energy is found to be attractive with the circular case corresponding to the energy maximum and the large eccentricity limit being the divergent energy minimum. As a result, with only Casimir stresses present, a fixed area shell is unstable with respect to collapse onto itself. This instability is argued to persist at arbitrary temperature.
arXiv comment7 pages, 3 figures
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