The Casimir effect in the presence of infrared transparency

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2021)071zbMATH Open1466.81114arXiv2011.02985OpenAlexW3160107908MaRDI QIDQ2047962FDOQ2047962

Authors: Max Warkentin 

Publication date: 4 August 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We revisit the Casimir effect perceived by two surfaces in the presence of infrared (IR) transparency. To address this problem, we study a model, where such a phenomenon naturally arises: the DGP model with two parallel 3-branes, each endowed with a localized curvature term. In that model, the UV modes of the 5-dimensional graviton are suppressed on the branes, while the IR modes can penetrate them freely. First, we find that the DGP branes act as "effective" (momentum-dependent) boundary conditions for the gravitational field, so that the (gravitational) Casimir force between them emerges. Second, we discover that the presence of an IR transparency region for the discrete modes modifies the standard Casimir force -- as derived for ideal Dirichlet boundary conditions -- in two competing ways: i) The exclusion of soft modes from the discrete spectrum leads to an increase of the Casimir force. ii) The non-ideal nature of the boundary conditions gives rise to a "leakage" of hard modes. As a result of i) and ii), the Casimir force becomes weaker. Since the derivation of this result involves only the localized kinetic terms of a quantum field on parallel surfaces (with codimension one), the derived Casimir force is expected to be present in a variety of setups in arbitrary dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02985

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityfield theories in higher dimensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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