Abstract
We employ path integral methods to calculate the Casimir energy and force densities in a chiral extension of QED. Manifestly gauge invariant perfect electromagnetic boundary conditions, a natural generalization of perfect electric and perfect magnetic conditions, are implemented directly in the action by the usage of auxiliary fields.
The chiral properties of the vacuum are modelled using a background 9 field, and we introduce techniques to efficiently calculate the path integral in this chiral medium. The flexibility of our method allows us to naturally obtain results for a variety of configurations, and where comparison is possible our results are in perfect agreement with existing literature.
Among these are multiple situations where a repulsive Casimir force is possible.