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We discuss a numerical relation between the cosmological constant and the vacuum energy arising from the Casimir effect in extra dimensions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Melissinos

It is well known that there can be negative energy densities in quantum field theory. Most of the work done in this area has involved free non-interacting systems. In this paper we show how a quantum state with negative energy density can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Solomon

The Casimir energy corresponding to a massive scalar field with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a spherical bag is obtained. The field is considered, separately, inside and outside the bag. The renormalization procedure that is necessary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , K. Kirsten , E. Elizalde , S. Leseduarte

The standard calculation of vacuum energy or zero point energy is in strong disagreement with observation. We suggest that this discrepancy is caused by the incomplete quantization of standard field theory. The vacuum energy calculation for…

General Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Jan M. Greben

This work investigates the thermal Casimir effect associated with a massive spinor field defined on a four-dimensional flat space with a circularly compactified spatial dimension whose periodicity is oriented along a vector in $xy$-plane.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Joás Venâncio , Lameque Filho , Herondy Mota , Azadeh Mohammadi

In the work's considered density of vacuum energy and dynamic of scalar field in multidimensional theory with cosmological constant. Using method of N.N.Bogolubov coefficients, was gotten expression for influence of anisotropic metric to…

General Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Sergey Yakovlev

We investigate the vacuum expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor associated with a massive fermionic field obeying the MIT bag boundary condition on a spherical shell in the global monopole spacetime. The asymptotic behavior of the…

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

The Casimir effect is a quantum phenomenon rooted in the fact that vacuum fluctuations of quantum fields are affected by the presence of physical objects and boundaries. Since the energy spectrum of the vacuum fluctuations depends on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 M. N. Chernodub , V. A. Goy , A. V. Molochkov

The vacuum energy density is calculated for the $O(N)$ nonlinear sigma models in two dimensions. To obtain $\varepsilon_{vac}$ we assume that each point of the space in which non-perturbative f\/ields are determined can be replaced by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 V. G. Ksenzov

A fundamental prediction of quantum mechanics is that there are random fluctuations everywhere in a vacuum because of the zero-point energy. Remarkably, quantum electromagnetic fluctuations can induce a measurable force between neutral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Zhujing Xu , Xingyu Gao , Jaehoon Bang , Zubin Jacob , Tongcang Li

The Casimir energy for a massless scalar field between the closely spaced two concentric D-dimensional (for D>3) spheres is calculated by using the mode summation with contour integration in the complex plane of eigenfrequencies and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Mustafa Özcan

We study the possibility that dark energy is a manifestation of the Casimir energy on extra dimensions with the topology of $S^2$. We consider our universe to be $M^4 \times S^2$ and modify the geometry by introducing noncommutativity on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Fabi , B. Harms , G. Karatheodoris

A critical look is taken at the calculation of the Casimir effect. The boundary conditions play an important role and should be imposed in a physical way. An acceptable result for the vacuum energy is only obtained when different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Finn Ravndal

We study the Casimir vacuum energy density and the Casimir pressure for a massless scalar field confined between two nearby parallel plates in a slightly curved, static spacetime background, employing the weak field approximation in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 G. Lambiase , A. Stabile , An. Stabile

We consider a quasi-periodically identified conical spacetime, like the one of a cosmic string or disclination, to investigate nonzero averaged quantum vacuum fluctuations effects on the energy-momentum tensor and induced current density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 K. E. L. de Farias , H. F. Santana Mota

A new concise method is presented for the calculation of the ground-state energy of the electromagnetic field and matter field interacting system. With the assumption of squeezed-like state, a new vacuum state is obtained for the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Li Tongzhong

We consider a (2+1)-dimensional holographic CFT on a static spacetime with globally timelike Killing vector. Taking the spatial geometry to be closed but otherwise general we expect a non-trivial vacuum energy at zero temperature due to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-03 Andrew Hickling , Toby Wiseman

The local Casimir energy is investigated for a wedge with and without a circular outer boundary due to the confinement of a massless scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter and satisfying the Dirichlet boundary conditions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Amir H. Rezaeian , Aram A. Saharian

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 consider the vacuum energy of the electromagnetic field in systems characterized by a constant conductivity using the zeta-regularization approach. The interaction in two cases is investigated: two infinitely thin parallel sheets and an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-11 Nail Khusnutdinov , D. Drosdoff , Lilia M. Woods