The Casimir energy with perfect electromagnetic boundary conditions and duality: a field-theoretic approach
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| author | Dudal, David Gobeyn, Aaron Oosthuyse, Thomas Stouten, Sebbe Vercauteren, David |
| author_facet | Dudal, David Gobeyn, Aaron Oosthuyse, Thomas Stouten, Sebbe Vercauteren, David |
| contents | Using functional integral methods, we study the Casimir effect for the case of two infinite parallel plates in the QED vacuum, with (different) perfect electromagnetic boundary conditions applied to both plates. To enforce these boundary conditions, we add two Lagrange multiplier fields to the action. We subsequently recover the known Casimir energy in two ways: once directly from the path integral, and once as the vacuum expectation value of the 00-component of the energy-momentum tensor. Comparing both methods, we show that the energy-momentum tensor must be modified, and that it picks up boundary contributions as a consequence. We also discuss electromagnetic duality-invariance of the theory and its interplay with the boundaries by generalizing the Deser-Teitelboim implementation of the duality transformation. |
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| spellingShingle | The Casimir energy with perfect electromagnetic boundary conditions and duality: a field-theoretic approach Dudal, David Gobeyn, Aaron Oosthuyse, Thomas Stouten, Sebbe Vercauteren, David High Energy Physics - Theory Using functional integral methods, we study the Casimir effect for the case of two infinite parallel plates in the QED vacuum, with (different) perfect electromagnetic boundary conditions applied to both plates. To enforce these boundary conditions, we add two Lagrange multiplier fields to the action. We subsequently recover the known Casimir energy in two ways: once directly from the path integral, and once as the vacuum expectation value of the 00-component of the energy-momentum tensor. Comparing both methods, we show that the energy-momentum tensor must be modified, and that it picks up boundary contributions as a consequence. We also discuss electromagnetic duality-invariance of the theory and its interplay with the boundaries by generalizing the Deser-Teitelboim implementation of the duality transformation. |
| title | The Casimir energy with perfect electromagnetic boundary conditions and duality: a field-theoretic approach |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19743 |