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The Casimir energy of a massive fermion field revisited

F. C. Santos, A. C. Tort

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0201104

Abstract

We introduce a general, simple and effective method of evaluating the zero point energy of a quantum field under the influence of arbitrary boundary conditions imposed on the field on flat surfaces perpendicular to a chosen spatial direction. As an example we apply the method to the Casimir effect associated with a massive fermion field on which MIT bag model type of boundary conditions are imposed.

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