Vacuum Energy (Casimir Effect)

• Journal of Physics article, "Systematics ..." ._. Publication data and addenda
• Norman QFExt Workshop presentation (typos in eqs. (13) and (15) corrected)
• Mass dependence of vacuum energy (Phys.Lett. B 624 (2005) 281-286)
• Casimir energy with a Robin boundary: The multiple-reflection cylinder-kernel expansion, New J. Phys. 8 (2006) 234 (presenting Zhonghai Liu's M.S. thesis)
• How does Casimir energy fall? (Phys. Rev. D 76 (2007) 025004)
• Branson Memorial presentation (SIGMA 3 (2007) 094)
• Newton Institute AGA article (Analysis on Graphs and Its Applications, ed. by P. Exner et al., Proc. Symp. Pure Math. v. 77, pp. 673-689)
• Leipzig QFExt Workshop presentation (J. Phys. A 41 (2008) 164055)
• Kaluza-Klein models as pistons (Phys. Rev. D 79 (2009) 065019)
• Rectangles, pistons, and pistols (J. Phys. A 42 (2009) 155402)
• Multiple-reflection expansion, 1D cases (technical report)
• Energy and pressure near boundaries (another Norman QFExt Conference presentation, Int. J. Mod, Phys. A 25 (2010) 2367-2372)
• Wedges and cosmic strings (Miltonfest talk)
• Soft wall project (Dartmouth Conference presentation, Spectral Geometry, ed. by A. H. Barnett et al., Proc. Symp. Pure Math. v. 84, pp. 139-154)
• Energy density and pressure in power-wall models (Benasque QFExt Conference presentation, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 27 (2012) 1260009)
• Wedges, cones, ... (Dowker festschrift paper, J. Phys. A 45 (2012) 374018)
• Surface ...: Pressure anomaly and distributional limit (J. Phys. A 45 (2012) 455402)
• Torque anomaly in quantum field theory (Phys. Rev. D 87 (2013) 047702)
• Investigations ... in an annular sector. I (Phys. Rev. D 88 (2013) 025029)
• How does Casimir energy fall? IV (Phys. Rev. D 89 (2014) 064027)
• Massive scalar field (J. Phys. A 48 (2015) 245402)
• Vacuum energy density and pressure near a soft wall (Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 105010) (presenting the undergraduate research thesis of Colin Whisler and Steven Murray)
• Stress tensor for a scalar field in a spatially varying background potential: Divergences, "renormalization," anomalies, and Casimir forces (Phys. Rev. D 93 (2016) 085017)
• Renormalization for a scalar field in an external scalar potential (Symmetry 10 (2018) 54)
• Vacuum energy density and pressure inside a soft wall (Internat. J. Mod. Phys. A 37 (2022) 2241007)

• Zhonghai Liu's Ph.D. dissertation