Casimir energy through transfer operators for sine-Gordon backgrounds

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTAE059arXiv2305.01438MaRDI QIDQ6509910FDOQ6509910

Abstract: The Casimir energy between a pair of two-dimensional plates represented by Dirac delta potentials and embedded in the topological background of a sine-Gordon kink is studied in [L. Santamaria-Sanz, letter (2023)] through an extension of the TGTG-formula, firstly discovered by O. Kenneth and I. Klich, to weak curved backgrounds. More details of the calculations are provided here, not only regarding the spectrum of the corresponding associated non-relativistic quantum mechanical problem but also concerning the Green's function and the transfer operators of the corresponding Quantum Field Theory. These details allow a better understanding of the issue. In fact, a more general potential consisting of a Dirac delta as well as its first derivative would be used to represent each plate. Moreover, the relation between the phase shift and the density of states (the well-known Dashen-Hasslacher-Neveu formula) is also exploited to characterize the quantum vacuum energy.

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