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Main Authors: Sun, Xiaoshu, Betcke, Timo, Strohmaier, Alexander
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01280
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author Sun, Xiaoshu
Betcke, Timo
Strohmaier, Alexander
author_facet Sun, Xiaoshu
Betcke, Timo
Strohmaier, Alexander
contents Computing the Casimir force and energy between objects is a classical problem of quantum theory going back to the 1940s. Several different approaches have been developed in the literature often based on different physical principles. Most notably a representation of the Casimir energy in terms of determinants of boundary layer operators makes it accessible to a numerical approach. In this paper, we first give an overview of the various methods and discuss the connection to the Krein-spectral shift function and computational aspects. We propose variants of Krylov subspace methods for the computation of the Casimir energy for large-scale problems and demonstrate Casimir computations for several complex configurations. This allows for Casimir energy calculation for large-scale practical problems and significantly speeds up the computations in that case.
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spellingShingle Numerical aspects of Casimir energy computation in acoustic scattering
Sun, Xiaoshu
Betcke, Timo
Strohmaier, Alexander
Quantum Physics
Mathematical Physics
Computing the Casimir force and energy between objects is a classical problem of quantum theory going back to the 1940s. Several different approaches have been developed in the literature often based on different physical principles. Most notably a representation of the Casimir energy in terms of determinants of boundary layer operators makes it accessible to a numerical approach. In this paper, we first give an overview of the various methods and discuss the connection to the Krein-spectral shift function and computational aspects. We propose variants of Krylov subspace methods for the computation of the Casimir energy for large-scale problems and demonstrate Casimir computations for several complex configurations. This allows for Casimir energy calculation for large-scale practical problems and significantly speeds up the computations in that case.
title Numerical aspects of Casimir energy computation in acoustic scattering
topic Quantum Physics
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01280