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The vacuum-polarization correction for bound electrons or muons is examined. The objective is to formulate a framework for calculating the correction from bound-state quantum electrodynamics entirely in coordinate space, including the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Paul Indelicato , Peter J. Mohr , J. Sapirstein

In this paper we analyze the vacuum polarization effects of a massless scalar field in the background of a global monopole considering a inner structure to it. Specifically we investigate the effect of its structure on the vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Spinelly , E. R. Bezerra de Mello

The consequences of the vacuum polarization effect in magnetic fields around a Schwarzschild Black Hole on the motion of charged particles are investigated in this work. Using the weak electromagnetic field approximation, we discuss the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-17 Petar Pavlović , Andrey Saveliev , Marko Sossich

We construct and study the vacuum polarization, $\langle \phi^{2}\rangle_{D},$ of the quantized massive scalar field with a general curvature coupling parameter in higher-dimensional static and spherically-symmetric black hole spacetimes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Jerzy Matyjasek , Dariusz Tryniecki

We compute the renormalized stress-energy tensor for a massless quantum scalar field in the background of the horizonless Bardeen spacetime. Within the weak-field approximation, we show that the vacuum fluctuations differ significantly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-17 Andrés Boasso , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

We study the effect of vacuum polarization on the atmosphere structure and radiation spectra of neutron stars with surface magnetic fields B=10^14-10^15 G, as appropriate for magnetars. Vacuum polarization modifies the dielectric property…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wynn C. G. Ho , Dong Lai

Recently, it has been suggested that a critical electrical field arises during the gravitational collapse of massive stars leading to a vacuum polarization. This, in turn, leads to the necessity of a reexamination of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-19 Rodrigo Alvares de Souza , Marcio Guilherme Bronzato de Avellar , Jorge Ernesto Horvath

A finite and unitary nonlocal formulation of quantum gravity is applied to the cosmological constant problem. The entire functions in momentum space at the graviton-standard model particle loop vertices generate an exponential suppression…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-08 J. W. Moffat

Aims. Many recent observations of pulsars and magnetars can be interpreted in terms of neutron stars (NS) with multipole electromagnetic fields. As a first approximation, we investigate the multipole magnetic and electric fields in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-07 S. Bonazzola , F. Mottez , J. Heyvaerts

We outline a general formalism for treating vacuum polarization phenomena within an effective field expansion. The coupling between source charges and virtual fields is examined from the perspectives of electrostatic potentials, induced…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 D. J. Flynn , I. P. Grant , H. M. Quiney

The paper deals with Hawking radiation from a general static black hole due to tunnelling of particle having non-zero mass. Due to complicated calculations, quantum corrections are calculated upto first order. The results are compared with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-01 Nairwita Mazumder , Ritabrata Biswas , Subenoy Chakraborty

For field theories in one time and one space dimensions we propose an efficient method to compute the vacuum polarization energy of static field configurations that do not allow a decomposition into symmetric and anti--symmetric channels.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-13 H. Weigel

A massless scalar field minimally coupled to gravity and propagating in the Schwarzschild spacetime is considered. After dimensional reduction under spherical symmetry the resulting 2D field theory is canonically quantized and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Balbinot , A. Fabbri , V. Frolov , P. Nicolini , P. Sutton , A. Zelnikov

We study the structure of spherically symmetric and static objects in the presence of a nonminimally coupled scalar field having a potential of the form $V(\phi)=-\mu^2\phi^2/2+\lambda\phi^4/4$. We numerically solve equations of the system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-14 A. Savaş Arapoğlu , A. Emrah Yükselci

Cosmic strings are the most popular topological defects arising from the spontaneous breaking of fundamental symmetries in the early Universe. They are the source of a number of interesting effects in cosmology and astrophysics. An…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-11 A. A. Saharian

Interior solutions of Einstein's equations with a non-zero cosmological constant are given for static and spherically symmetric configurations of uniform density. The metric tensor and pressure are determined for both positive and negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Zdeněk Stuchlík

We report on general relativistic calculations of quasiequilibrium configurations of binary neutron stars in circular orbits with zero vorticity. These configurations are expected to represent realistic situations as opposed to corotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Bonazzola , E. Gourgoulhon , J. -A. Marck

We explore the structure of a dipole-type vacuum field of a slowly rotating magnetic star near the horizon of a supermassive black hole, where the structure of field lines becomes highly distorted by effects of strong gravity. Such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-13 Ondřej Kopáček , T. Tahamtan , Vladimír Karas

Vacuum polarization of massive scalar fields in a thermal state at arbitrary temperature is studied near the horizon of a Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole. We derived an analytic form of $<\phi^2>$ approximately in the large mass limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-10-02 Hiroko Koyama , Yasusada Nambu , Akira Tomimatsu

In this paper we analyse the vacuum polarization effect associated with the charged massless scalar field, in the presence of magnetic flux at finite temperature, in the cosmic string background. We consider a spacetime of an idealized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Spinelly , E. R. Bezerra de Mello