Abstract
We apply the physically more appealing MIT Bag boundary conditions to study the Casimir effect on the lattice. Employing the formalism of Ref. [1] to calculate the Casimir energy for free lattice fermions, we show that the results for the naive, Wilson and overlap fermions match the continuum expressions precisely in the zero lattice spacing limit, as expected from universality. In contrast to Ref. [1] where the result for the naive fermions rapidly oscillates with the lattice size for both, the periodic (P) and antiperiodic (AP) boundary conditions, no oscillations are observed with the lattice size. Furthermore, the apparent violation of the universality for naive fermion in Ref. [1] is shown to be cured by applying suitable series extrapolation techniques, thus demonstrating that the Casimir energy for the naive fermions with periodic/antiperiodic boundary conditions agrees with the results for other free lattice fermions, and can be used to obtain the results for the Dirac fermion in the zero limit of the lattice spacing.
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