scholarly journals Remarks on the thermodynamics and the vacuum energy of a quantum Maxwell gas on compact and closed manifolds

2013 ◽  
Vol 867 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Kelnhofer
Keyword(s):  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Maxwell Gas

scholarly journals Exact vacuum energy of orbifold lattice theories

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (12) ◽  
pp. 048-048 ◽  
Author(s):  
So Matsuura
Keyword(s):  
Vacuum Energy

scholarly journals Weighing the vacuum energy

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Alvarez ◽  
Jesus Anero ◽  
Raquel Santos-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Vacuum Energy

scholarly journals How low can vacuum energy go when your fields are finite-dimensional?

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (14) ◽  
pp. 1944006
Author(s):  
ChunJun Cao ◽  
Aidan Chatwin-Davies ◽  
Ashmeet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Locally Finite ◽  
Finite Dimensional ◽  
Finite Dimensionality ◽  
Klein Gordon ◽  
Dimensional Version

According to the holographic bound, there is only a finite density of degrees of freedom in space when gravity is taken into account. Conventional quantum field theory does not conform to this bound, since in this framework, infinitely many degrees of freedom may be localized to any given region of space. In this paper, we explore the viewpoint that quantum field theory may emerge from an underlying theory that is locally finite-dimensional, and we construct a locally finite-dimensional version of a Klein–Gordon scalar field using generalized Clifford algebras. Demanding that the finite-dimensional field operators obey a suitable version of the canonical commutation relations makes this construction essentially unique. We then find that enforcing local finite dimensionality in a holographically consistent way leads to a huge suppression of the quantum contribution to vacuum energy, to the point that the theoretical prediction becomes plausibly consistent with observations.

scholarly journals Thermal Casimir effect with general boundary conditions

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Muñoz-Castañeda ◽  
L. Santamaría-Sanz ◽  
M. Donaire ◽  
M. Tello-Fraile
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Casimir Effect ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Quantum Vacuum ◽  
Parallel Plates ◽  
Casimir Forces ◽  
Thermal Correction ◽  
Frequency Independent ◽  
Scalar Quantum

Abstract In this paper we study the system of a scalar quantum field confined between two plane, isotropic, and homogeneous parallel plates at thermal equilibrium. We represent the plates by the most general lossless and frequency-independent boundary conditions that satisfy the conditions of isotropy and homogeneity and are compatible with the unitarity of the quantum field theory. Under these conditions we compute the thermal correction to the quantum vacuum energy as a function of the temperature and the parameters encoding the boundary condition. The latter enables us to obtain similar results for the pressure between plates and the quantum thermal correction to the entropy. We find out that our system is thermodynamically stable for any boundary conditions, and we identify a critical temperature below which certain boundary conditions yield attractive, repulsive, and null Casimir forces.

scholarly journals TIME, VACUUM ENERGY, AND THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 2265-2268 ◽  
Author(s):  
VIQAR HUSAIN
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Cosmological Constant Problem ◽  
Problem Of Time ◽  
The Relationship

We describe a link between the cosmological constant problem and the problem of time in quantum gravity. This arises from examining the relationship between the cosmological constant and vacuum energy in light of nonperturbative formulations of quantum gravity.

scholarly journals LOCAL CONTRIBUTION OF A QUANTUM CONDENSATE TO THE VACUUM ENERGY DENSITY

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 683-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIOVANNI MODANESE
Keyword(s):  
Energy Density ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Casimir Effect ◽  
Landau Equation ◽  
Vacuum Energy Density ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Ginzburg Landau ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Local Contribution ◽  
Gravitational Vacuum

We evaluate the local contribution gμνL of coherent matter with Lagrangian density L to the vacuum energy density. Focusing on the case of superconductors obeying the Ginzburg–Landau equation, we express the relativistic invariant density L in terms of low-energy quantities containing the pairs density. We discuss under which physical conditions the sign of the local contribution of the collective wave function to the vacuum energy density is positive or negative. Effects of this kind can play an important role in bringing the local changes in the amplitude of gravitational vacuum fluctuations — a phenomenon reminiscent of the Casimir effect in QED.

scholarly journals ON VACUUM-ENERGY DECAY FROM PARTICLE PRODUCTION

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (25) ◽  
pp. 1250150 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. KLINKHAMER
Keyword(s):  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Particle Production ◽  
Energy Decay ◽  
Back Reaction ◽  
De Sitter Spacetime ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Consistent Description ◽  
Sitter Spacetime

A simplified (but consistent) description of particle-production back-reaction effects in de Sitter spacetime is given.

scholarly journals VACUUM ENERGY INDUCED BY AN IMPENETRABLE FLUX TUBE OF FINITE RADIUS

2011 ◽  
Vol 03 ◽  
pp. 375-385
Author(s):  
V. M. GORKAVENKO ◽  
YU. A. SITENKO ◽  
O. B. STEPANOV
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Dirichlet Boundary ◽  
Vacuum Energy Density ◽  
Transverse Size ◽  
Massive Scalar ◽  
Curvature Scalar ◽  
Finite Radius ◽  
Massive Scalar Field ◽  
The Magnetic Field

We consider the effect of the magnetic field background in the form of a tube of the finite transverse size on the vacuum of the quantized charged massive scalar field which is subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition at the edge of the tube. The vacuum energy is induced, being periodic in the value of the magnetic flux enclosed in the tube. The dependence of the vacuum energy density on the distance from the tube and on the coupling to the space-time curvature scalar is comprehensively analyzed.

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