Casimir energy for N superconducting cavities: a model for the YBCO (GdBCO) sample to be used in the Archimedes experiment

Autor: Annalisa Allocca, Saverio Avino, Sergio Balestrieri, Enrico Calloni, Sergio Caprara, Massimo Carpinelli, Luca D’Onofrio, Domenico D’Urso, Rosario De Rosa, Luciano Errico, Gianluca Gagliardi, Marco Grilli, Valentina Mangano, Maria Marsella, Luca Naticchioni, Antonio Pasqualetti, Giovanni Piero Pepe, Maurizio Perciballi, Luca Pesenti, Paola Puppo, Piero Rapagnani, Fulvio Ricci, Luigi Rosa, Carlo Rovelli, Davide Rozza, Paolo Ruggi, Naurang Saini, Valeria Sequino, Valeria Sipala, Daniela Stornaiuolo, Francesco Tafuri, Arturo Tagliacozzo, Iara Tosta e Melo, Lucia Trozzo
Přispěvatelé: Allocca, A, Avino, S, Balestrieri, S, Calloni, E, Caprara, S, Carpinelli, M, D'Onofrio, L, D'Urso, D, De Rosa, R, Errico, L, Gagliardi, G, Grilli, M, Mangano, V, Marsella, M, Naticchioni, L, Pasqualetti, A, Pepe, G, Perciballi, M, Pesenti, L, Puppo, P, Rapagnani, P, Ricci, F, Rosa, L, Rovelli, C, Rozza, D, Ruggi, P, Saini, N, Sequino, V, Sipala, V, Stornaiuolo, D, Tafuri, F, Tagliacozzo, A, Tosta e Melo, I, Trozzo, L, Allocca, A., Avino, S., Balestrieri, S., Calloni, E., Caprara, S., Carpinelli, M., D'Onofrio, L., D'Urso, D., De Rosa, R., Errico, L., Gagliardi, G., Grilli, M., Mangano, V., Marsella, M., Naticchioni, L., Pasqualetti, A., Pepe, G. P., Perciballi, M., Pesenti, L., Puppo, P., Rapagnani, P., Ricci, F., Rosa, L., Rovelli, C., Rozza, D., Ruggi, P., Saini, N., Sequino, V., Sipala, V., Stornaiuolo, D., Tafuri, F., Tagliacozzo, A., Tosta e Melo, I., Trozzo, L., University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli (INFN, Sezione di Napoli), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CPT - E4 Gravité quantique, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The European Physical Journal Plus
The European Physical Journal Plus, 2022, 137 (7), pp.826. ⟨10.1140/epjp/s13360-022-03025-7⟩
ISSN: 2190-5444
Popis: In this paper we study the Casimir energy of a sample made by N cavities, with $$N\gg 1$$ N ≫ 1 , across the transition from the metallic to the superconducting phase of the constituting plates. After having characterised the energy for the configuration in which the layers constituting the cavities are made by dielectric and for the configuration in which the layers are made by plasma sheets, we concentrate our analysis on the latter. It represents the final step towards the macroscopical characterisation of a “multi-cavity” (with N large) necessary to fully understand the behaviour of the Casimir energy of a YBCO (or a GdBCO) sample across the transition. Our analysis is especially useful to the Archimedes experiment, aimed at measuring the interaction of the electromagnetic vacuum energy with a gravitational field. To this purpose, we aim at modulating the Casimir energy of a layered structure, the multi-cavity, by inducing a transition from the metallic to the superconducting phase. After having characterised the Casimir energy of such a structure for both the metallic and the superconducting phase, we give an estimate of the modulation of the energy across the transition.
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