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The Casimir Effect at Finite Temperature in a Six-Dimensional Vortex Scenario

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The Casimir effect for parallel plates satisfying the Dirichlet boundary condition in the context of effective QED coming from a six-dimensional Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution of the Abelian Higgs model with fermions coupled to gravity is studied at finite temperature. We find that the sign of the Casimir energy remains negative under the thermal influence. It is also shown that the Casimir force between plates will be weaker in the higher-temperature surroundings while keeps attractive. This Casimir effect involving the thermal influence is still inconsistent with the known experiments. We find that the thermal correction can not compensate or even reduce the modification from this kind of vortex model to make the Casimir force to be in less conflict with the measurements.

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This work is supported by NSFC No. 10875043.

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Cheng, H. The Casimir Effect at Finite Temperature in a Six-Dimensional Vortex Scenario. Int J Theor Phys 55, 1354–1360 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-015-2776-y

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