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In this work we explore the possible existence of static, spherically symmetric and stationary, axisymmetric traversable wormholes coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics. Considering static and spherically symmetric (2+1) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Aaron V. B. Arellano , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We study linear scalar perturbations of the four-dimensional, traversable wormhole solution of Maldacena, Milekhin, and Popov(arXiv:1807.04726). The geometry is constructed by matching an asymptotically flat, near-extremal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Rajdeep Mondal , Abhishake Sadhukhan

Computing the Casimir force and energy between objects is a classical problem of quantum theory going back to the 1940s. Several different approaches have been developed in the literature often based on different physical principles. Most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Xiaoshu Sun , Timo Betcke , Alexander Strohmaier

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

Motivated by a desire to understand quantum fluctuation energy densities and stress within a spatially varying dielectric medium, we examine the vacuum expectation value for the stress tensor of a scalar field with arbitrary conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-17 Kimball A. Milton , Stephen A. Fulling , Prachi Parashar , Pushpa Kalauni , Taylor Murphy

We summarize a recent work on the subject title. The Dirac equation in a curved spacetime depends on a field of coefficients (essentially the Dirac matrices), for which a continuum of different choices are possible. We study the conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Mayeul Arminjon , Frank Reifler

The near-horizon region of magnetically charged black holes can have very strong magnetic fields. A useful low-energy effective theory for fluctuations of the fields, coupled to electrically charged particles, is force-free electrodynamics.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Nabil Iqbal , Simon F. Ross

We reformulate the construction of wormhole solutions as perturbations around near-horizon geometries of near-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes in four dimensions and equal-angular-momenta Myers-Perry black holes in five…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Takamasa Kanai , Kengo Maeda , Daisuke Yoshida

This research delves into the potential existence of traversable wormholes (WHs) within the framework of modified, curvature based gravity. The modification includes linear perturbations of the matter Lagrangian and the trace of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Niklas Loewer , Moreshwar Tayde , P. K. Sahoo

Traversable wormholes necessarily require violations of the averaged null energy condition; this being the definition of ``exotic matter''. However, the theorems which guarantee the energy condition violation are remarkably silent when it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-18 Matt Visser , Sayan Kar , Naresh Dadhich

We investigate the existence and stability of both the timelike and null circular orbits for a (2+1) dimensional charged BTZ black hole in Einstein-nonlinear Maxwell gravity with a negative cosmological constant. The stability analysis of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Shobhit Giri , Hemwati Nandan , Lokesh Kumar Joshi , Sunil D Maharaj

In this article, we present a stationary metric ansatz to describe a rotating traversable wormhole in the presence of the topological defect produced by a global monopole charge. This particular rotating space-time is referred to as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-18 Faizuddin Ahmed

It is a very well known fact that the energy conditions concerning Lorentzian wormhole (WH) solutions of Einstein equations are violated. Consequently, attempts to avoid the violation of the energy conditions constitutes one of the main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-01 Everton M. C. Abreu , Nélio Sasaki

It has been suggested that the cosmological constant is a variable dynamical quantity. A class of solution has been presented for the spherically symmetric space time describing wormholes by assuming the erstwhile cosmological constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , M. Sarker , A. Ghosh , B. Raychaudhuri

We calculate renormalised vacuum expectation values of electromagnetic stress-energy tensor in the static spherically-symmetrical wormhole topology. We find that for metric tensor sufficiently slow varied with distance violation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 V. Khatsymovsky

Asymptotically flat wormhole solutions are found in the deformed Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity. It turns out that higher curvature terms can not play the role of exotic matters which are crucial to form a traversable wormhole, and external…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-14 Edwin J. Son , Wontae Kim

In this manuscript, we construct generalized Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes in the context of $f(R)$ modified theories of gravity. We consider that the matter driving the wormhole satisfies the energy conditions so that it is the effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-04 Oleksii Sokoliuk , Sanjay Mandal , P. K. Sahoo , Alexander Baransky

In this work, we explore the connection between Casimir energy and an Absurdly Benign Traversable Wormhole, which in the literature has been considered only in the pioneering paper of Morris and Thorne. To have consistency with the Casimir…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Remo Garattini

An extended gravity theory is used to explore the possibility of non-exotic matter traversable wormholes. In the extended gravity theory, additional terms linear and quadratic in the trace of the energy momentum tensor are considered in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 S. K. Tripathy , D. Nayak , B. Mishra , D. Behera , S. K. Sahu

The present work deals with some WH solutions in $f(Q)$ gravity theory for non-constant red-shift function subject to a power law model of $f(Q)$, $Q$ being the non-metricity scalar. Important properties of a WH configuration like the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 Madhukrishna Chakraborty , Subenoy Chakraborty