Quasi-local Casimir energy and vacuum buoyancy in a weak gravitational field
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Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)
Abstract: Casimir energy in presence of a weak gravitational field is discussed taking into account the issues related to energy and its conservation in a curved background. It is well-known that there are inherent difficulties in defining energy in General Relativity, essentially due to its non-localizability. Using the concept of quasi-local mass and energy, it is shown that it is possible to attribute a Tolman mass to a massless scalar field confined to a Casimir cavity. Such non-local mass coincides - as expected - with the Casimir energy. The present approach offers an alternative derivation of the vacuum buoyancy force acting on a Casimir cavity, confirming the results presented by Calloni {em et al.} in a series of papers devoted to explore the possibility of experimentally weighting the Casimir vacuum (the so-called Archimedes Experiment).
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