HEAT KERNEL COEFFICIENTS AND DIVERGENCIES OF THE CASIMIR ENERGY FOR THE DISPERSIVE SPHERE

DOI10.1142/S0217751X02010170MaRDI QIDQ4547534zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 17 December 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0110217

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ProceedingsWorkshopQuantum field theorySpecial issue

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Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest (00B25) Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to quantum theory (81-06)

Abstract: The first heat kernel coefficients are calculated for a dispersive ball whose permittivity at high frequency differs from unity by inverse powers of the frequency. The corresponding divergent part of the vacuum energy of the electromagnetic field is given and ultraviolet divergencies are seen to be present. Also in a model where the number of atoms is fixed the pressure exhibits infinities. As a consequence, the ground-state energy for a dispersive dielectric ball cannot be interpreted easily.

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• Path-integral quantization of electrodynamics in dielectric media
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• The finite-temperature Casimir effect for a dilute ball satisfying ϵµ = 1

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• Calculating vacuum energies in renormalizable quantum field theories: A new approach to the Casimir problem
• Casimir energy, fermion fractionalization and stability of a Fermi field in an electric potential in \((1+1)\) dimensions

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