Open AccessCasimir force
Author(s) -
Bin Miao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.69.20200450
Subject(s) - casimir effect , physics , casimir pressure , vacuum energy , zero point energy , regularization (linguistics) , quantum electrodynamics , classical mechanics , quantum , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science
Casimir force in quantum electrodynamics is the representation of zero point energy of vacuum. Depending on the type of fluctuation medium, generalized Casimir force covers a wide spectrum of topics in physics, such as, quantum, critical, Goldstone mode, and non-equilibrium Casimir force. In general, long range correlated fluctuations and constraints are two conditions for generating the Casimir force. In this paper, through a survey of the development of Casimir physics, we discuss several types of Casimir forces and several regularization methods. We end the paper with an outlook for the further development of Casimir physics in the future.