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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Gaussian Versus Mean-Field Models: Contradictory Predictions for the Casimir Force Under Dirichlet-Neumann Boundary Conditions.

Daniel Dantchev, Vassil Vassilev, Joseph Rudnick

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Daniel DantchevInstitute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Academic Georgy Bonchev St. Building 4, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.ORCID 0000-0002-4762-617X
Vassil VassilevInstitute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Academic Georgy Bonchev St. Building 4, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.ORCID 0000-0002-0831-9396
Joseph RudnickDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3334-032X

Funding

Bulgarian Science Fund KP-06-H72/5
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mean-field model (MFM) is the workhorse of statistical mechanics: one normally accepts that it yields results which, despite differing numerically from correct ones, are not "very wrong", in that they resemble the actual behavior of the system as eventually obtained by more advanced treatments. This, for example, turns out to be the case for the Casimir force under, say, Dirichlet-Dirichlet, (+,+) and (+,-) boundary conditions (BC) for which, according to the general expectations, the MFM is

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Casimir forcecritical phenomenaexact resultsfinite-size effectsGaussian modelmean-field modelphase diagramsphase transitions

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PMID40422423
PMCPMC12110746

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