Speaker
Thomas Oosthuyse
(KU Leuven)
Description
The Casimir effect is a remarkable macroscopic feature of QED, while recent lattice studies have also shown its potential nontrivial consequences in QCD.
In light of having a better understanding of the Casimir effect,
it is advantageous to have a self-contained path integral formulation of the phenomenon.
In this talk I will show how the Casimir effect between two uncharged plates in the presence of a chiral medium, modeled with an axion term $\theta \widetilde{F}_{\mu\nu} F^{\mu\nu}$,
can be formulated in terms of the path integral,
and how such a formulation leads to a 3D effective action of the restricted electromagnetic field.
Primary author
Thomas Oosthuyse
(KU Leuven)
