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dc.contributor.advisorJakobsen, Per Kristen
dc.contributor.authorUtheim, Marius
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-07T09:09:51Z
dc.date.available2016-10-07T09:09:51Z
dc.date.issued2016-08-15
dc.description.abstractIn 2012, a new method for calculating the Casimir force between compact objects was developed, expressing the force in terms of a boundary integral equation. The case of perfectly conducting objects with Dirichlet boundary conditions in two dimensions was treated by Isak Kilen. The method was later extended to three dimensions by Karl Øyvind Mikalsen. The contribution of this thesis will be to develop the method in two dimensions for the case when the objects are perfectly insulating, meaning von Neumann boundary conditions. A formula for the Casimir force in terms of a boundary integral problem is derived and shown to correctly predict the force between two parallel plates, except for a missing factor of 2 that was also observed for Dirichlet boundary conditions. The developed formula contains a coefficient that is dependent on the regularization scheme used, and it is not clear whether this coefficient is geometry-independent.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/9778
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2016 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDMAT-3900
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Matematikk: 410::Anvendt matematikk: 413en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Mathematics: 410::Applied mathematics: 413en_US
dc.titleInsulating the Vacuum. Calculating the Casimir force using the boundary integral method with von Neumann boundary conditionsen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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