2 papers
hep-th2001
Vacuum Polarization of a Scalar Field in a Rectangular Waveguide
R. B. Rodrigues, N. F. Svaiter
An analysis of the one-loop vacuum fluctuations associated with a scalar field confined in the interior of a infinite waveguide of rectangular cross section is presented. We first…
hep-th2001
Vacuum Stress Tensor of a Scalar Field in a Rectangular Waveguide
R. B. Rodrigues, N. F. Svaiter, R. D. M. De Paola
Using the heat kernel method and the analytic continuation of the zeta function, we calculate the canonical and improved vacuum stress tensors, and ${Θ_{μν}(\ve…