Repulsive Casimir Force of the Free and Harmonically Trapped Bose Gas in the Bose–Einstein Condensate Phase

Abstract

AbstractIn this study, ideal free and harmonically trapped Bose gases confined by two plates in the x–y‐plane in‐between distance d are considered. The Casimir potential is obtained from the grand canonical potential of these quantum Bose gases for the Zaremba and the anti‐periodic boundary conditions. The Casimir force is then obtained for the Bose–Einstein condensate phase and for the non‐condensate phase . It is shown that Casimir forces are repulsive for these boundary conditions. Additionally, it is shown that Casimir forces exponentially decay in the non‐condensate phase with the decay lengths. These decay lengths were discussed and compared for different boundary conditions. As a result, new results are obtained for harmonically trapped Bose gas and the free gas results are compared with previous results.