Polarization of the vacuum of a quantized scalar field by an impenetrable magnetic vortex of finite thickness

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/17/175401zbMATH Open1188.81148arXiv0911.2877OpenAlexW2077552992MaRDI QIDQ3561002FDOQ3561002

O. B. Stepanov, Volodymyr M. Gorkavenko, Yu A. Sitenko

Publication date: 17 May 2010

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

Abstract: We consider the effect of the magnetic field background in the form of a tube of the finite transverse size on the vacuum of the quantized charged massive scalar field which is subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition at the tube. It is shown that, if the Compton wavelength associated with the scalar field exceeds considerably the transverse size of the tube, then the vacuum energy which is finite and periodic in the value of the magnetic flux enclosed in the tube is induced on a plane transverse to the tube. Some consequences for generic features of the vacuum polarization in the cosmic-string background are discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.2877

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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• Vacuum Polarization by a Magnetic Flux of Special Cylindric Form
• Vacuum energy induced by a singular magnetic vortex
• VACUUM ENERGY INDUCED BY AN IMPENETRABLE FLUX TUBE OF FINITE RADIUS
• Polarization of vacuum with nontrivial boundary conditions
• Self-adjointness of the two-dimensional massless Dirac Hamiltonian and vacuum polarization effects in the background of a singular magnetic vortex.
• On the vacuum polarization density caused by an external field

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