Abstract
We calculate the renormalized vacuum energy of a massless scalar field confined between two nearby parallel plates formed by ideal uncharged conductors, placed tangentially to the surface of a sphere with mass and radius . This study will take into account the static and spherically symmetric solution of Hořava-Lifshitz gravity found by Kehagias-Sfetsos (KS), in both weak field and infrared limits. A slight amplification of the Casimir force between the conducting plates is found. Thermal corrections to the Casimir energy are analyzed. Based on current Casimir effect measurements, a constraint on the parameter of KS metric is also obtained.
- Received 1 October 2013
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.104035
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