Quantum vacuum effects from boundaries of designer potentials

Details Quantum vacuum effects from boundaries of designer potentials Quantum vacuum effects from boundaries of designer potentials

2009-04-03

arxiv.org/abs/0904.0527v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

13 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

Vacuum energy in quantum field theory, being the sum of zero-point energies of all field modes, is formally infinite but yet, after regularization or renormalization, can give rise to finite observable effects. One way of understanding how these effects arise is to compute the vacuum energy in an idealized system such as a large cavity divided into disjoint regions by pistons. In this paper, this type of calculation is carried out for situations where the potential affecting a field is not the same in all regions of the cavity. It is shown that the observable parts of the vacuum energy in such potentials do not fall off to zero as the region where the potential is nontrivial becomes large. This unusual behavior might be interesting for tests involving quantum vacuum effects and for studies on the relation between vacuum energy in quantum field theory and geometry.

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