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The Casimir effect in chiral media using path integral techniques

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arxiv 2207.09175 v3 pith:3L34W5NU submitted 2022-07-19 hep-th

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We employ path integral methods to calculate the Casimir energy and force densities in a chiral extension of QED. Manifestly gauge invariant perfect electromagnetic boundary conditions, a natural generalization of perfect electric and perfect magnetic conditions, are implemented directly in the action by the usage of auxiliary fields. The chiral properties of the vacuum are modelled using a background $\theta$ field, and we introduce techniques to efficiently calculate the path integral in this chiral medium. The flexibility of our method allows us to naturally obtain results for a variety of configurations, and where comparison is possible our results are in perfect agreement with existing literature. Among these are multiple situations where a repulsive Casimir force is possible.

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