Positive Energy Wormholes Made from Normal Charges

In this article we look at the class of positive-energy density wormholes introduced by Eiroa and Simeone, and ask the question "How close can we come to building this wormhole with normal, electrically charged matter?" Using a series expansion, we determine that the stress-energy tensor of the metric can be made arbitrarily close to that of a charged line-source by taking the exponent of the radial coordinate to be sufficiently small. We also find terms in the expansion which resemble QED radiative corrections to the Coulomb field of an electron.