Casimir energies and pressures for -function potentials

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/37/24/014MaRDI QIDQ3157456zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kimball A. Milton

Publication date 19 January 2005

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0401090

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: The Casimir energies and pressures for a massless scalar field associated with $delta$-function potentials in 1+1 and 3+1 dimensions are calculated. For parallel plane surfaces, the results are finite, coincide with the pressures associated with Dirichlet planes in the limit of strong coupling, and for weak coupling do not possess a power-series expansion in 1+1 dimension. The relation between Casimir energies and Casimir pressures is clarified,and the former are shown to involve surface terms. The Casimir energy for a $delta$-function spherical shell in 3+1 dimensions has an expression that reduces to the familiar result for a Dirichlet shell in the strong-coupling limit. However, the Casimir energy for finite coupling possesses a logarithmic divergence first appearing in third order in the weak-coupling expansion, which seems unremovable. The corresponding energies and pressures for a derivative of a $delta$-function potential for the same spherical geometry generalizes the TM contributions of electrodynamics. Cancellation of divergences can occur between the TE ($delta$-function) and TM (derivative of $delta$-function) Casimir energies. These results clarify recent discussions in the literature.

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