Massless rotating fermions inside a cylinder
Abstract
We study rotating thermal states of a massless quantum fermion field inside a cylinder in Minkowski space-time. Two possible boundary conditions for the fermion field on the cylinder are considered: the spectral and MIT bag boundary conditions. If the radius of the cylinder is sufficiently small, rotating thermal expectation values are finite everywhere inside the cylinder. We also study the Casimir divergences on the boundary. The rotating thermal expectation values and the Casimir divergences have different properties depending on the boundary conditions applied at the cylinder. This is due to the local nature of the MIT bag boundary condition, while the spectral boundary condition is nonlocal.
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@article{arxiv.1502.03073,
title = {Massless rotating fermions inside a cylinder},
author = {Victor E. Ambrus and Elizabeth Winstanley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.03073},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, title changed, submitted to the proceedings of the TIM-14 Physics Conference, 20-22 November 2014, Timisoara, Romania