Casimir effect on the worldline

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 397-425

  Gies, Holger ^a,b   Langfeld, Kurt ^c   Moyaerts, Laurent ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary Quantum Field Theory; Lattice Quantum Field Theory; Statistical Methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144463153     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/06/018     Document Type: Article

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