https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4103-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
One-loop radiative corrections to the QED Casimir energy
Department of Physics, University of Qom, Ghadir Blvd., Qom, 371614-611, Islamic Republic of Iran
* e-mail: r.moazzemi@qom.ac.ir
Received:
2
February
2016
Accepted:
20
April
2016
Published online:
18
May
2016
In this paper, we investigate one-loop radiative corrections to the Casimir energy in the presence of two perfectly conducting parallel plates for QED theory within the renormalized perturbation theory. In fact, there are three contributions for radiative corrections to the Casimir energy, up to order . Only the two-loop diagram, which is of order
, has been computed by Bordag et. al (Ann. Phys. 165:192, 1985), approximately. Here, up to this order, we consider corrections due to two one-loop terms, i.e., photonic and fermionic loop corrections resulting from renormalized QED Lagrangian, more precisely. Our results show that only the fermionic loop has a very minor correction and the correction of photonic loop vanishes.
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