CASIMIR EFFECTS IN RENORMALIZABLE QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES

DOI10.1142/S0217751X02010224zbMATH Open1024.81030arXivhep-th/0201148MaRDI QIDQ4547537FDOQ4547537

Authors: R. L. Jaffe, Noah Graham, Herbert Weigel 

Publication date: 6 November 2003

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

Abstract: We review the framework we and our collaborators have developed for the study of one-loop quantum corrections to extended field configurations in renormalizable quantum field theories. We work in the continuum, transforming the standard Casimir sum over modes into a sum over bound states and an integral over scattering states weighted by the density of states. We express the density of states in terms of phase shifts, allowing us to extract divergences by identifying Born approximations to the phase shifts with low order Feynman diagrams. Once isolated in Feynman diagrams, the divergences are canceled against standard counterterms. Thus regulated, the Casimir sum is highly convergent and amenable to numerical computation. Our methods have numerous applications to the theory of solitons, membranes, and quantum field theories in strong external fields or subject to boundary conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201148

zbMATH Keywords

solitonsmembranesbound statesFeynman diagramphase shiftBorn approximationone-loop quantum correctionsscattering statestrong external fieldfield configurationdivergencyCasimir sum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

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