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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Muñoz Castañeda, José María author Santamaría Sanz, Lucía author Donaire, Manuel author Tello Fraile, Marcos author 2020-08 In this paper we study the system of a scalar quantum field confined between two plane, isotropic, and homogeneous parallel plates at thermal equilibrium. We represent the plates by the most general lossless and frequency-independent boundary conditions that satisfy the conditions of isotropy and homogeneity and are compatible with the unitarity of the quantum field theory. Under these conditions we compute the thermal correction to the quantum vacuum energy as a function of the temperature and the parameters encoding the boundary condition. The latter enables us to obtain similar results for the pressure between plates and the quantum thermal correction to the entropy. We find out that our system is thermodynamically stable for any boundary conditions, and we identify a critical temperature below which certain boundary conditions yield attractive, repulsive, and null Casimir forces. 1434-6044 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/10322 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8348-1 1434-6052 Thermal Casimir effect with general boundary conditions