Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77: 155
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4729-5

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

On the static Casimir effect with parity-breaking mirrors

¹ Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, 8400, Bariloche, Argentina
² Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 5500, Mendoza, Argentina

^* e-mail: fosco@cab.cnea.gov.ar

Received: 8 September 2016
Accepted: 1 March 2017
Published online: 10 March 2017

Abstract

We study the Casimir interaction energy due to the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic (EM) field in the presence of two mirrors, described by -dimensional, generally nonlocal actions, which may contain both parity-conserving and parity-breaking terms. We compare the results with the ones corresponding to Chern–Simons boundary conditions and evaluate the interaction energy for several particular situations.