• Deforming the vacuum. On the physical origin and numerical calculation of the Casimir effect. 

      Mikalsen, Karl Øyvind (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-14)
      A new method for calculating the Casimir force between compact objects was introduced in May 2012 by Per Jakobsen and Isak Kilen. In this method a regularization procedure is used to reduce the pressure to the solution of an integral equation defined on the boundaries of the objects. In this thesis the method is further developed by extending from a 2D to a 3D massless scalar field, subject to ...