Effective action for delta potentials: Spacetime-dependent inhomogeneities and Casimir self-energy

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Franchino Vinas, S. A.; Mazzitelli, Francisco Diego
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2021
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We study the vacuum fluctuations of a quantum scalar field in the presence of a thin and inhomogeneous flat mirror, modeled with a delta potential. Using heat-kernel techniques, we evaluate the Euclidean effective action perturbatively in the inhomogeneities (nonperturbatively in the constant background). We show that the divergences can be absorbed into a local counterterm and that the remaining finite part is in general a nonlocal functional of the inhomogeneities, which we compute explicitly for massless fields in D=4 dimensions. For time-independent inhomogeneities, the effective action gives the Casimir self-energy for a partially transmitting mirror. For time-dependent inhomogeneities, the Wick-rotated effective action gives the probability of particle creation due to the dynamical Casimir effect.
Fil: Franchino Vinas, S. A.. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Física; Argentina
Fil: Mazzitelli, Francisco Diego. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Gerencia del Área de Energía Nuclear. Instituto Balseiro. Archivo Histórico del Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro | Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Balseiro. Archivo Histórico del Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte; Argentina
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CASIMIR EFFECT
EFFECTIVE ACTION
SINGULAR POTENTIALS
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spelling Effective action for delta potentials: Spacetime-dependent inhomogeneities and Casimir self-energyFranchino Vinas, S. A.Mazzitelli, Francisco DiegoCASIMIR EFFECTEFFECTIVE ACTIONSINGULAR POTENTIALShttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1We study the vacuum fluctuations of a quantum scalar field in the presence of a thin and inhomogeneous flat mirror, modeled with a delta potential. Using heat-kernel techniques, we evaluate the Euclidean effective action perturbatively in the inhomogeneities (nonperturbatively in the constant background). We show that the divergences can be absorbed into a local counterterm and that the remaining finite part is in general a nonlocal functional of the inhomogeneities, which we compute explicitly for massless fields in D=4 dimensions. For time-independent inhomogeneities, the effective action gives the Casimir self-energy for a partially transmitting mirror. For time-dependent inhomogeneities, the Wick-rotated effective action gives the probability of particle creation due to the dynamical Casimir effect.Fil: Franchino Vinas, S. A.. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Física; ArgentinaFil: Mazzitelli, Francisco Diego. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Gerencia del Área de Energía Nuclear. Instituto Balseiro. Archivo Histórico del Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro | Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Balseiro. Archivo Histórico del Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte; ArgentinaAmerican Physical Society2021-03info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/162143Franchino Vinas, S. A.; Mazzitelli, Francisco Diego; Effective action for delta potentials: Spacetime-dependent inhomogeneities and Casimir self-energy; American Physical Society; Physical Review D; 103; 6; 3-2021; 1-172470-00102470-0029CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.065006info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T09:49:58Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/162143instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 09:49:59.099CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Effective action for delta potentials: Spacetime-dependent inhomogeneities and Casimir self-energy
title Effective action for delta potentials: Spacetime-dependent inhomogeneities and Casimir self-energy
spellingShingle Effective action for delta potentials: Spacetime-dependent inhomogeneities and Casimir self-energy
Franchino Vinas, S. A.
CASIMIR EFFECT
EFFECTIVE ACTION
SINGULAR POTENTIALS
title_short Effective action for delta potentials: Spacetime-dependent inhomogeneities and Casimir self-energy
title_full Effective action for delta potentials: Spacetime-dependent inhomogeneities and Casimir self-energy
title_fullStr Effective action for delta potentials: Spacetime-dependent inhomogeneities and Casimir self-energy
title_full_unstemmed Effective action for delta potentials: Spacetime-dependent inhomogeneities and Casimir self-energy
title_sort Effective action for delta potentials: Spacetime-dependent inhomogeneities and Casimir self-energy
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Franchino Vinas, S. A.
Mazzitelli, Francisco Diego
author Franchino Vinas, S. A.
author_facet Franchino Vinas, S. A.
Mazzitelli, Francisco Diego
author_role author
author2 Mazzitelli, Francisco Diego
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv CASIMIR EFFECT
EFFECTIVE ACTION
SINGULAR POTENTIALS
topic CASIMIR EFFECT
EFFECTIVE ACTION
SINGULAR POTENTIALS
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv We study the vacuum fluctuations of a quantum scalar field in the presence of a thin and inhomogeneous flat mirror, modeled with a delta potential. Using heat-kernel techniques, we evaluate the Euclidean effective action perturbatively in the inhomogeneities (nonperturbatively in the constant background). We show that the divergences can be absorbed into a local counterterm and that the remaining finite part is in general a nonlocal functional of the inhomogeneities, which we compute explicitly for massless fields in D=4 dimensions. For time-independent inhomogeneities, the effective action gives the Casimir self-energy for a partially transmitting mirror. For time-dependent inhomogeneities, the Wick-rotated effective action gives the probability of particle creation due to the dynamical Casimir effect.
Fil: Franchino Vinas, S. A.. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Física; Argentina
Fil: Mazzitelli, Francisco Diego. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Gerencia del Área de Energía Nuclear. Instituto Balseiro. Archivo Histórico del Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro | Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Balseiro. Archivo Histórico del Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte; Argentina
description We study the vacuum fluctuations of a quantum scalar field in the presence of a thin and inhomogeneous flat mirror, modeled with a delta potential. Using heat-kernel techniques, we evaluate the Euclidean effective action perturbatively in the inhomogeneities (nonperturbatively in the constant background). We show that the divergences can be absorbed into a local counterterm and that the remaining finite part is in general a nonlocal functional of the inhomogeneities, which we compute explicitly for massless fields in D=4 dimensions. For time-independent inhomogeneities, the effective action gives the Casimir self-energy for a partially transmitting mirror. For time-dependent inhomogeneities, the Wick-rotated effective action gives the probability of particle creation due to the dynamical Casimir effect.
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Franchino Vinas, S. A.; Mazzitelli, Francisco Diego; Effective action for delta potentials: Spacetime-dependent inhomogeneities and Casimir self-energy; American Physical Society; Physical Review D; 103; 6; 3-2021; 1-17
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