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This paper discusses the theoretical construction of thin-shell wormholes from Kiselev black holes. We assume a barotropic equation of state for the exotic matter on the shell. While most of these wormholes are unstable to linearized radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-06 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

The combination of quintessence and phantom energy in a joint model is referred to as quintom dark energy. This paper discusses traversable wormholes supported by such quintom matter. Two particular solutions are explored, a constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-15 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig , Farook Rahaman , Ashis Ghosh

Diverse calculations have shown that a relativistic field confined to a cavity by well defined boundary conditions can have a negative Casimir or vacuum energy. Why then can one not make a finite system with negative mass by confining the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jacob D. Bekenstein

We compute the graviton one loop contribution to a classical energy in a traversable wormhole background. Such a contribution is evaluated by means of a variational approach with Gaussian trial wave functionals. A zeta function…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Remo Garattini

In this brief report I introduce a yet another class of geometries for which semi-classical chronology protection theorems are of dubious physical reliability. I consider a ``Roman ring'' of traversable wormholes, wherein a number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Matt Visser

The local Casimir energy density and the global Casimir energy for a massless scalar field associated with a $\lambda\delta$-function potential in a 3+1 dimensional circular cylindrical geometry are considered. The global energy is examined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ines Cavero-Pelaez , Kimball A. Milton , Klaus Kirsten

A traversable wormhole generally violates the averaged null energy condition, usually requiring exotic matter. Recently, it has been found that the traversable wormhole can be realized by non-exotic matter in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-06 Hua-Chao Liu , Rong-Xin Miao

The vacuum (Casimir) energy in quantum field theory is a problem relevant both to new nanotechnology devices and to dark energy in cosmology. The crucial question is the dependence of the energy on the system geometry under study. Despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-09 L. Kaplan

For a generic $f(R)$ which admits a polynomial expansion of at least third order (i.e. $\frac{d^{3}f}{dR^{3}}\neq 0$) we find the near-throat wormhole solution. Necessary conditions for the existence of wormholes in such $f(R)$ theories are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

In this paper, we investigate the role of gravito-inertial effects on the Casimir energy of a massless scalar field confined between two parallel plates orbiting a static and zero tidal Schwarzschild-like wormhole, at zero temperature.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-02 A. C. L. Santos , C. R. Muniz , L. T. Oliveira

On the analogy of the Casimir effect, we present an effect of quantum-field fluctuations, attributed to gravitational field coupling to the zero-point energy of virtual particles in the vacuum. In the process of black hole's formation, such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 She-Sheng Xue

We calculate the Casimir energy at spherical cavities within a host made up of an arbitrary material described by a possibly dispersive and lossy dielectric response. To that end, we add to the coherent optical response a contribution that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-16 W. Luis Mochan , Carlos Villarreal-Lujan

It is shown in the first part of this paper that a combined model comprising ordinary and quintessential matter can support a traversable wormhole in Einstein-Maxwell gravity. Since the solution allows zero tidal forces, the wormhole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-04 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

In this study, we investigate traversable wormholes inspired by the Kiselev framework, which extends classical black hole solutions by incorporating anisotropic fluids. These exotic fluids play a crucial role in cosmology, particularly in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Jureeporn Yuennan , Piyachat Panyasiripan , Phongpichit Channuie

The objective of this manuscript is to investigate the traversable wormhole solutions in the background of the $f(R, \phi)$ theory of gravity, where $R$ is the Ricci scalar and $\phi$ is the scalar potential respectively. For this reason,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-05 Adnan Malik , Tayyaba Naz , Abdul Qadeer , M. Farasat Shamir , Z. Yousaf

In this paper, we consider third order Lovelock gravity with a cosmological constant term in an n-dimensional spacetime $\mathcal{M}^{4}\times \mathcal{K}^{n-4}$, where $\mathcal{K}^{n-4} $ is a constant curvature space. We decompose the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-23 Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Mohammad Hossein Dehghani

Electric fields can thread a classical Einstein-Rosen bridge. Maldacena and Susskind have recently suggested that in a theory of dynamical gravity the entanglement of ordinary perturbative quanta should be viewed as creating a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-07 Dalit Engelhardt , Ben Freivogel , Nabil Iqbal

The idea of constructing a time machine is not new and even received a boost thanks to the realization that a traversable wormhole could be converted to a time machine. It was shown in a recent paper that the time-travel paradoxes can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-04 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

A new class of traversable wormholes was recently constructed which relies only on local bulk dynamics rather than an explicit coupling between distinct boundaries. Here we begin with a four-dimensional Weyl fermion field of any mass $m$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-15 Donald Marolf , Sean McBride

It is well known that it takes matter that violates the averaged weak energy condition to hold the throat of a wormhole open. The production of such ``exotic'' matter is usually discussed within the context of quantum field theory. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Dan N. Vollick