Global versus local Casimir effect

DOI10.1007/S00023-010-0053-4zbMATH Open1208.81183arXiv1007.2139OpenAlexW2026328606MaRDI QIDQ625744FDOQ625744

Authors: Andrzej Herdegen, Mariusz Stopa 

Publication date: 25 February 2011

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper continues the investigation of the Casimir effect with the use of the algebraic formulation of quantum field theory in the initial value setting. Basing on earlier papers by one of us (AH) we approximate the Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions by simple interaction models whose nonlocality in physical space is under strict control, but which at the same time are admissible from the point of view of algebraic restrictions imposed on models in the context of Casimir backreaction. The geometrical setting is that of the original parallel plates. By scaling our models and taking appropriate limit we approach the sharp boundary conditions in the limit. The global force is analyzed in that limit. One finds in Neumann case that although the sharp boundary interaction is recovered in the norm resolvent sense for each model considered, the total force per area depends substantially on its choice and diverges in the sharp boundary conditions limit. On the other hand the local energy density outside the interaction region, which in the limit includes any compact set outside the strict position of the plates, has a universal limit corresponding to sharp conditions. This is what one should expect in general, and the lack of this discrepancy in Dirichlet case is rather accidental. Our discussion pins down its precise origin: the difference in the order in which scaling limit and integration over the whole space is carried out.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2139

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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