Properties of the vacuum. I. mechanical and thermodynamic

Abstract Casimir energies are calculated for quantized fields in cavities with a variety of forms. Consequences for models of the vacuum state are considered. The possibility of negative mass systems is discussed. Results on energy and entropy of finite quantum systems at non-zero temperature are given.

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