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Fermionic Casimir densities in a conical space with a circular boundary and magnetic flux

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-02-14 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

The vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the energy-momentum tensor for a massive fermionic field is investigated in a (2+1)-dimensional conical spacetime in the presence of a circular boundary and an infinitely thin magnetic flux located at the cone apex. The MIT bag boundary condition is assumed on the circle. At the cone apex we consider a special case of boundary conditions for irregular modes, when the MIT bag boundary condition is imposed at a finite radius, which is then taken to zero. The presence of the magnetic flux leads to the Aharonov-Bohm-like effect on the VEV of the energy-momentum tensor. For both exterior and interior regions, the VEV is decomposed into boundary-free and boundary-induced parts. Both these parts are even periodic functions of the magnetic flux with the period equal to the flux quantum. The boundary-free part in the radial stress is equal to the energy density. Near the circle, the boundary-induced part in the VEV dominates and for a massless field the vacuum energy density is negative inside the circle and positive in the exterior region. Various special cases are considered.

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@article{arxiv.1111.0199,
  title  = {Fermionic Casimir densities in a conical space with a circular boundary and magnetic flux},
  author = {E. R. Bezerra de Mello and F. Moraes and A. A. Saharian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0199},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

28 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1101.4130, discussion and references added