Rederivation of the Casimir force under the completeness relation of continuum operator
Abstract
Casimir effects manifests that, the two closely paralleled plates, generally produce a macroscopic attractive force due to the quantum vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic fields. The derivation of the force requires an artificial regulator by removing the divergent summation. By including naturally a spectrum density factor, based on the observation that an incomplete eigenvectors of observable, such as the eigenstates for the photons in the free field, can form a complete set of eigenvectors by introducing a unique spectrum transformation, an alternative way is presented to rederive the force, without using a regulator. As a result, the Casimir forces are obtained with the first term -π2 c/(240 a4) attractive, and the second one, -π4 c3 σ2/(1008 a6), also attractive but smaller, with a the plate separation, and σ a to-be-determined small constant number in the spectrum density factor.