We study, for the first time, the Casimir effect in non-Abelian gauge theory using first-principles numerical simulations. Working in two spatial dimensions at zero temperature, we find that closely spaced perfect chromoelectric conductors attract each other with a small anomalous scaling dimension. At large separation between the conductors, the attraction is exponentially suppressed by a new massive quantity, the Casimir mass, which is surprisingly different from the lowest glueball mass. The apparent emergence of the new massive scale may be a result of the backreaction of the vacuum to the presence of the plates as sufficiently close chromoelectric conductors induce, in a space between them, a smooth crossover transition to a color deconfinement phase.
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Chernodub, M. N., Goy, V. A., Molochkov, A. V., & Nguyen, H. H. (2018). Casimir Effect in Yang-Mills Theory in D=2+1. Physical Review Letters, 121(19). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.191601
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