Electromagnetic Casimir energy with extra dimensions

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dc.creatorAlnes, H.
dc.creatorOlaussen, K.
dc.creatorRavndal, F.
dc.creatorWehus, I. K.
dc.date2006-07-13
dc.date2007-07-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:26:38Z
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dc.descriptionWe calculate the energy-momentum tensor due to electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations between two parallel hyperplanes in more than four dimensions, considering both metallic and MIT boundary conditions. Using the axial gauge, the problem can be mapped upon the corresponding problem with a massless, scalar field satisfying respectively Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The pressure between the plates is constant while the energy density is found to diverge at the boundaries when there are extra dimensions. This can be related to the fact that Maxwell theory is then no longer conformally invariant. A similar behavior is known for the scalar field where a constant energy density consistent with the pressure can be obtained by improving the energy-momentum tensor with the Huggins term. This is not possible for the Maxwell field. However, the change in the energy-momentum tensor with distance between boundaries is finite in all cases.
dc.description16 pages, typos corrected, published version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0607081
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0607081
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D74:105017,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.105017
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/176950
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleElectromagnetic Casimir energy with extra dimensions
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