Scalar Casimir densities for cylindrically symmetric Robin boundaries

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/42/011zbMATH Open1105.81054arXivhep-th/0603144OpenAlexW1999978664MaRDI QIDQ3420541FDOQ3420541

Authors: A. S. Tarloyan, A. A. Saharian 

Publication date: 2 February 2007

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

Abstract: Wightman function, the vacuum expectation values of the field square and the energy-momentum tensor are investigated for a massive scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter in the region between two coaxial cylindrical boundaries. It is assumed that the field obeys general Robin boundary conditions on bounding surfaces. The application of a variant of the generalized Abel-Plana formula allows to extract from the expectation values the contribution from single shells and to present the interference part in terms of exponentially convergent integrals. The vacuum forces acting on the boundaries are presented as the sum of self-action and interaction terms. The first one contains well-known surface divergences and needs a further renormalization. The interaction forces between the cylindrical boundaries are finite and are attractive for special cases of Dirichlet and Neumann scalars. For the general Robin case the interaction forces can be both attractive or repulsive depending on the coefficients in the boundary conditions. The total Casimir energy is evaluated by using the zeta function regularization technique. It is shown that it contains a part which is located on bounding surfaces. The formula for the interference part of the surface energy is derived and the energy balance is discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603144

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

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