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This paper is a continuation of a study of the properties and applications of quantum stress tensor fluctuations. Here we treat the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic energy-momentum flux operator which as been averaged in space and…

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We explore the distribution of the energy momentum tensor (EMT) around quark--anti-quark and single quark at nonzero temperature in SU(3) Yang-Mills gauge theory by extending our previous study on the EMT distribution in static…

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Quantum fluctuations of electromagnetic radiation pressure are discussed. We use an approach based on the quantum stress tensor to calculate the fluctuations in velocity and position of a mirror subjected to electromagnetic radiation. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Chun-Hsien Wu , L. H. Ford

In inhomogeneous dielectric media the divergence of the electromagnetic stress is related to the gradients of \varepsilon and \mu, which is a consequence of Maxwell's equations. Investigating spherically symmetric media we show that this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Itai Y. Efrat , Ulf Leonhardt

We perform various lattice numerical analyses with the energy-momentum tensor (EMT) defined through the gradient flow. We explore the spatial distribution of the stress tensor in static quark-anti-quark systems and thermodynamic quantities…

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We calculate the vacuum expectation value of the stress-energy tensor for a quantised bulk scalar field in the Randall-Sundrum model, and discuss the consequences of its local behaviour for the self-consistency of the model. We find that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Knapman , D. J. Toms

In a previous work, Optics Communications 284 (2011) 2460--2465, we considered a dielectric medium with an anti-reflection coating and a spatially uniform index of refraction illuminated at normal incidence by a quasimonochromatic field.…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-12 Michael E. Crenshaw , Thomas B. Bahder

Vacuum expectation value of the stress-energy-momentum tensor for scalar and spinor fields is obtainted on the homogeneous space with $G$-invariant metrics using the orbits of coadjoint representation of Lie group and the generalized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 A. I. Breev

Large vacuum fluctuations of a quantum stress tensor operator can be described by the asymptotic behavior of the probability distribution of the time or spacetime averaged operator. Here we focus on the case of stress tensor operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Enrico D. Schiappacasse , Christopher J. Fewster , L. H. Ford

On the basis of a non-local Lagrangian for Maxwell equations in a dispersive medium, the energy-momentum tensor of the field is derived. We obtain the Field equations through variational methods and an extension of Noether theorem for a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Carlos Heredia , Josep Llosa

The stress-energy tensor of a matter shell whose history coincides with a null hypersurface in the Einstein-Cartan gravity is revisited. It is demonstrated that with a proper choice for the torsion discontinuity taken to be orthogonal to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 S. Khakshournia , R. Mansouri

In a previous paper, we pointed out how a dimensional analysis of the stress-energy tensor of the gravitational field allows to derive the field equation of General Relativity. In this note, we comment an analogous reasoning in presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-14 J. Navarro , J. B. Sancho

In this paper, we study the interactions of electromagnetic waves with a non-dispersive dynamic medium that is temporally dependent. Electromagnetic fields under material time-modulation conserve their momentum but not their energy. We…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Theodoros T. Koutserimpas , Romain Fleury

We derive the form of the magnetic stress tensor in a completely general, stationary magnetic medium, with an arbitrary magnetization field $\vec M(\vec r)$ and free current density $\vec j(\vec r)$. We start with the magnetic force density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Olivier Espinosa , Andreas Reisenegger

Two-point functions, the mean field squared and the vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the energy-momentum tensor are investigated for the electromagnetic field in the geometry of parallel plates on background of $(D+1)$% -dimensional dS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 A. S. Kotanjyan , A. A. Saharian , H. A. Nersisyan

We analyze the expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor and its fluctuations in quantum field theory on curved spacetimes $\langle T_{ab} \rangle$. A generally accepeted condition for the conceptual consistency of semiclassical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-22 Alejandro Perez , Daniel Sudarsky

We offer a unified approach to several phenomena related to the electromagnetic vacuum of a complex medium made of point electric dipoles. To this aim, we apply the linear response theory to the computation of the polarization field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-23 M. Donaire

A new gauge-invariant approach for describing cosmological perturbations is developed. It is based on a physically motivated splitting of the stress-energy tensor of the perturbation into two parts - the bare perturbation and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Sergei M. Kopeikin , Juan Ramirez , Bahram Mashhoon , Mikhail V. Sazhin

A meaningful probability distribution for measurements of a quantum stress tensor operator can only be obtained if the operator is averaged in time or in spacetime. This averaging can be regarded as a description of the measurement process.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-11 Christopher J. Fewster , L. H. Ford

The description of dispersion forces within the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics in linear, dispersing, and absorbing media combines the benefits of approaches based on normal-mode techniques of standard quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-04 Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch