Vacuum energy density and pressure of a massive scalar field

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/24/245402zbMATH Open1318.81056arXiv1412.8381OpenAlexW2962703963MaRDI QIDQ5261660FDOQ5261660

Authors: Fernando Daniel Mera, S. A. Fulling 

Publication date: 6 July 2015

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

Abstract: With a view toward application of the Pauli-Villars regularization method to the Casimir energy of boundaries, we calculate the expectation values of the components of the stress tensor of a confined massive field in 1+1 space-time dimensions. Previous papers by Hays and Fulling are bridged and generalized. The Green function for the time-independent Schrodinger equation is constructed from the Green function for the whole line by the method of images; equivalently, the one-dimensional system is solved exactly in terms of closed classical paths and periodic orbits. Terms in the energy density and in the eigenvalue density attributable to the two boundaries individually and those attributable to the confinement of the field to a finite interval are distinguished so that their physical origins are clear. Then the pressure is found similarly from the cylinder kernel, the Green function associated most directly with an exponential frequency cutoff of the Fourier mode expansion. Finally, we discuss how the theory could be rendered finite by the Pauli-Villars method.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8381

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zbMATH Keywords

Casimir effectMacdonald functionPauli-Villars regularizationvacuum energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Green's functions for ordinary differential equations (34B27) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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