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Luca Buoninfante1,2,3, Gaetano Lambiase1,2, Luciano Petruzziello1,2
11Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello", Università di Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, SA Italy.
Abstract:
In this paper, we study the Casimir effect in a curved spacetime described by gravitational actions quadratic in the curvature. In particular, we consider the dynamics of a massless scalar field confined between two nearby plates and compute the corresponding mean vacuum energy density and pressure in the framework of quadratic theories of gravity. Since we are interested in the weak-field limit, as far as the gravitational sector is concerned we work in the linear regime. Remarkably, corrections to the flat spacetime result due to extended models of gravity (although very small) may appear at the first-order of our perturbative analysis, whereas general relativity contributions start appearing at the second order. Future experiments on the Casimir effect might represent a useful tool to test and constrain extended theories of gravity.
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