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Fluctuations of the Casimir pressure and the quantization of electrodynamics

Abstract

Using standard techniques of quantum Field Theory we determine the fluctuations of the components of the energy-momentum tensor in the presence of plates. For this aim we derive the Wightman functions of the eletromagnetic field using canonical quantization. For the two-plate system the correlation functions contain an infinite set of poles corresponding to events connected by n-times reflected light-signals. Taking into account the conditions of the measuring process the fluctuations of the Casimir pressure depend critically on the chosen quantization procedure which itself reflects the model of the plates. (orig.)
Publication Date:
Mar 01, 1993
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
DESY-93-024
Reference Number:
SCA: 662220; PA: DEN-93:0FF441; EDB-94:033262; ERA-19:010689; NTS-94:015154; SN: 94001147090
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Mar 1993
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; CASIMIR EFFECT; FLUCTUATIONS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; SECOND QUANTIZATION; ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; WIGHTMAN FIELD THEORY; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; SINGULARITY; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; POLARIZATION; PLATES; MEASURING METHODS; 662220
OSTI ID:
10123817
Research Organizations:
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Zeuthen (Germany). Inst. fuer Hochenergiephysik
Country of Origin:
Germany
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE94740596; TRN: DE93FF441
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only); INIS
Submitting Site:
DEN
Size:
25 p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 04, 2005

Citation Formats

Robaschik, D, and Wieczorek, E. Fluctuations of the Casimir pressure and the quantization of electrodynamics. Germany: N. p., 1993. Web.
Robaschik, D, & Wieczorek, E. Fluctuations of the Casimir pressure and the quantization of electrodynamics. Germany.
Robaschik, D, and Wieczorek, E. 1993. "Fluctuations of the Casimir pressure and the quantization of electrodynamics." Germany.
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title = {Fluctuations of the Casimir pressure and the quantization of electrodynamics}
author = {Robaschik, D, and Wieczorek, E}
abstractNote = {Using standard techniques of quantum Field Theory we determine the fluctuations of the components of the energy-momentum tensor in the presence of plates. For this aim we derive the Wightman functions of the eletromagnetic field using canonical quantization. For the two-plate system the correlation functions contain an infinite set of poles corresponding to events connected by n-times reflected light-signals. Taking into account the conditions of the measuring process the fluctuations of the Casimir pressure depend critically on the chosen quantization procedure which itself reflects the model of the plates. (orig.)}
place = {Germany}
year = {1993}
month = {Mar}
}