VACUUM ENERGY: MYTHS AND REALITY

DOI10.1142/S0218271806009431zbMATH Open1112.83321arXivgr-qc/0604062MaRDI QIDQ3434337FDOQ3434337

Authors: G. E. Volovik 

Publication date: 25 April 2007

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the main myths related to the vacuum energy and cosmological constant, such as: ``unbearable lightness of space-time; the dominating contribution of zero point energy of quantum fields to the vacuum energy; non-zero vacuum energy of the false vacuum; dependence of the vacuum energy on the overall shift of energy; the absolute value of energy only has significance for gravity; the vacuum energy depends on the vacuum content; cosmological constant changes after the phase transition; zero-point energy of the vacuum between the plates in Casimir effect must gravitate, that is why the zero-point energy in the vacuum outside the plates must also gravitate; etc. All these and some other conjectures appear to be wrong when one considers the thermodynamics of the ground state of the quantum many-body system, which mimics macroscopic thermodynamics of quantum vacuum. In particular, in spite of the ultraviolet divergence of the zero-point energy, the natural value of the vacuum energy is comparable with the observed dark energy. That is why the vacuum energy is the plausible candidate for the dark energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0604062

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantdark energyzero-point energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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