Quantum energy inequalities for the non-minimally coupled scalar field

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/2/025402MaRDI QIDQ5440347zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher J. Fewster, Lutz W. Osterbrink

Publication date 4 February 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2450

zbMATH Keywords

non-minimal couplingquantum scalar fieldweak energy condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: In this paper we discuss local averages of the energy density for the non-minimally coupled scalar quantum field, extending a previous investigation of the classical field. By an explicit example, we show that such averages are unbounded from below on the class of Hadamard states. This contrasts with the minimally coupled field, which obeys a state-independent lower bound known as a Quantum Energy Inequality (QEI). Nonetheless, we derive a generalised QEI for the non-minimally coupled scalar field, in which the lower bound is permitted to be state-dependent. This result applies to general globally hyperbolic curved spacetimes for coupling constants in the range $0<xileq1/4$. We analyse the state-dependence of our QEI in four-dimensional Minkowski space and show that it is a nontrivial restriction on the averaged energy density in the sense that the lower bound is of lower order, in energetic terms, than the averaged energy density itself.

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