Aspects of quantum energy and stress in inhomogeneous unbounded dielectric continua

DOI10.1142/S0129055X19500028zbMATH Open1421.35357arXiv1402.6582WikidataQ129218324 ScholiaQ129218324MaRDI QIDQ5226413FDOQ5226413

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Publication date: 31 July 2019

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This article addresses a number of issues associated with the problem of calculating contributions from the electromagnetic quantum induced energy and stress in a stationary material with an inhomogeneous polarizability. After briefly reviewing the conventional approaches developed by Lifshitz el al and more recent attempts by others, we emphasize the need to accommodate the effects due to the classical constitutive properties of the material in any experimental attempt to detect such contributions. Attention is then concentrated on a particular system composed of an ENZ-type (epsilon-near-zero) meta-material, chosen to have an anisotropic and inhomogeneous permittivity confined in an infinitely long perfectly conducting open waveguide. This permits us to deduce from the source-free Maxwell's equations a complete set of harmonic electromagnetic evanescent eigen-modes and eigen-frequencies. Since these solutions prohibit the existence of asymptotic scattering states in the guide an alternative regularization scheme, based on the Euler-Maclaurin formula, enables us to prescribe precise criteria for the extraction of finite quantum expectation values from regularized mode sums together with error bounds on these values. This scheme is used to derive analytic results for regularized energy densities in the guide. The criteria are exploited to construct a numerical scheme that is bench-marked by comparing its output with the analytic results derived from the special properties of the inhomogeneous ENZ medium.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6582

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zbMATH Keywords

regularizationCasimirENZ metamaterialinhomogeneous dielectric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maxwell equations (35Q61) Euler-Maclaurin formula in numerical analysis (65B15) Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50) Approximation to limiting values (summation of series, etc.) (40A25) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55) Basic methods for problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M99)

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