The Casimir Effect 50 Years Later

Michael Bordag9810238207, 9789810238209

Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions, held September 14-18, 1998, Leipzig, Germany.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Title……Page 4
Date-line……Page 5
Preface……Page 6
Contents……Page 8
I. 50 years of Casimir effect ……Page 12
H.B.G. Casimir: Some remarks on the history of the so called Casimir effect ……Page 14
H. Rechenberg: Historical remarks on zero-point energy and the Casimir effect A911-1998) ……Page 21
K.A. Milton: Julian Schwinger and the Casimir effect: the reality of zero-point energy ……Page 31
II. The Casimir effect today ……Page 48
M. Bordag, B. Geyer, G.L. Klimchitskaya, V.M. Mostepanenko: Casimir effect as a test for hypothetical interactions ……Page 50
M. Bordag, K. Kirsten, D. Vassilevich: On the ground state energy for a dielectric ball ……Page 61
I. Brevik: Casimir theory of the relativistic piecewise uniform string ……Page 73
M.A. Cirone, R. Passante: Non-additive Casimir-Polder forces ……Page 85
H. Mitter, D. Robaschik: Thermodynamics of the Casimir effect — asymptotic considerations ……Page 90
V. V. Nesterenko, I. G. Pirozhenko: Dispersion contribution to the Casimir energy ……Page 96
K.A. Milton: Sonoluminescence and the dynamical Casimir effect ……Page 103
S. Liberati, M. Visser, F. Belgiorno, D. W. Sciama: Sonoluminescence and the QED vacuum ……Page 111
A.A. Actor, I. Bender. Non-stationary states of harmonic oscillators and quantum fields ……Page 125
V. V. Dodonov: Nonstationary Casimir effect in detuned and lossy cavities with vibrating walls ……Page 138
G. Plunien, R. Schoutzhold, G. Soff: Canonical approach to the dynamical Casimir effect ……Page 144
III. Mathematical aspects of vacuum quantities ……Page 154
S.A. Fulling: What we should have learned from G. H. Hardy about quantum field theory under external conditions ……Page 156
E. Elizalde: The multiplicative anomaly ……Page 166
G. Esposito: New results in heat-kernel asymptotics on manifolds with boundary ……Page 176
J. S. Dowker, K. Kirsten: Calculation of heat kernel coefficients by special case calculations ……Page 187
S. Falkenberg, B. Geyer, P.M. Lavrov, P.Yu. Moshin: Quantum properties of general gauge theories with external and composite fields in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism ……Page 193
D. Muelsch, B. Geyer. On the background field method in the osp(l,2)-covariant Lagrangian quantization of irreducible massive gauge theories ……Page 209
IV. Electromagnetic vacuum effects ……Page 228
J. Audretsch, V.D. Skarzhinsky: New trends in the Aharonov-Bohm effect ……Page 230
V. Skalozub, A. Strelchenko: On stabilization of a chromomagnetic field at high temperature ……Page 240
M.V. Cougo-Pinto, C. Farina, A.C. Tort: Fermionic Casimir effect in an external magnetic field ……Page 246
C.G. Beneventano, M. De Francia, E.M. Santangelo: Dirac fields in a Bohm-Aharonov background and spectral boundary conditions. ……Page 251
W. Dittrich, H. Gies: Applications of the light cone condition for various perturbed vacua ……Page 258
M.V. Cougo-Pinto, C. Fanna, F.C. Santos, A.C. Tort: The speed of light between an unusual pair of plates ……Page 271
G. Barton, A. Calogeracos: On the quantum mechanics of atoms constrained to move relativistically ……Page 276
M. Haack, M. G. Schmidt: Axion decay in a constant electromagnetic background field and at finite temperature using world-line methods ……Page 286
V.I. Ritus: Symmetries and causes of the coincidence of the radiation spectra of mirrors and charges in 1+1 and 3+1 spaces ……Page 294
A.A. Abrikosov, Jr.: Instantons in a closed volume. Current progress ……Page 311
A. Batrachenko: Vacuum polarization by the Nielsen-Olesen vortex ……Page 322
V. Quantum fields in gravitational background ……Page 326
A.D. Heifer. The physics of negative energy densities ……Page 328
J. Lindig: Not all adiabatic vacua are physical states ……Page 338
C. Molina Paris, S. Habib, E. Mottola: Energy-momentum tensor in a de Sitter universe ……Page 341
V.B. Bezerra: Some global effects around a defect of spacetime ……Page 356
L.C.B. Crispino, A. Higuchi, G.E.A. Matsas, D. Sudarsky: Interaction of Hawking radiation with static scalar sources and electric charges outside Schwarzschild black holes ……Page 362
N.R. Khusnutdinov: Ground state energy of massive scalar field in the background of finite thickness cosmic string ……Page 367
S. Nojiri, S.D. Odintsov: Conformal anomaly for dilaton coupled matter and anti-evaporation of black holes ……Page 370
M. Visinescu: Taub-Nut spinning space ……Page 385
VI. Appendix ……Page 396
Program of the workshop ……Page 398
List of participants ……Page 401