Recent Developments in Quantum Vacuum Energy for Confined Fields
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-11-05 v2
Abstract
Quantum vacuum energy entered hadronic physics through the zero-point energy parameter introduced into the bag model. Estimates of this parameter led to apparent discordance with phenomenological fits. More serious were divergences which were omitted in an ad hoc manner. New developments in understanding Casimir self-stresses, and the nature of surface divergences, promise to render the situation clearcut.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409239,
title = {Recent Developments in Quantum Vacuum Energy for Confined Fields},
author = {K. A. Milton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409239},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
10 pages, one ps figure, uses ws-ijmpa.cls. Talk presented at 8th Workshop on Non-Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, l'Institut Astrophysique de Paris, 7-11 June 2004