Casimir energy corrections by light-cone fluctuations

DOI10.1142/S0217751X14500249zbMATH Open1284.81263arXiv1307.4749OpenAlexW3106201188MaRDI QIDQ5407909FDOQ5407909

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Publication date: 8 April 2014

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

Abstract: We study the effects of light-cone fluctuations on the renormalized zero-point energy associated with a free massless scalar field in the presence of boundaries. In order to simulate light-cone fluctuations we introduce a space-time dependent random coefficient in the Klein-Gordon operator. We assume that the field is defined in a domain with one confined direction. For simplicity, we choose the symmetric case of two parallel plates separated by a distance $a$. The correction to the renormalized vacuum energy density between the plates goes as $1/a^8$ instead of the usual $1/a^4$ dependence for the free case. In turn we also show that light-cone fluctuations break down the vacuum pressure homogeneity between the plates.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4749

zbMATH Keywords

Casimir energywave propagation in random mediaquantum fields in curved space-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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