Ambrus, V.E. and Winstanley, E. orcid.org/0000-0001-8964-8142 (2016) Rotating fermions inside a cylindrical boundary. Physical Review D, 93 (10). 104014. ISSN 2470-0010
Abstract
We study a quantum fermion field inside a cylinder in Minkowski space-time. On the surface of the cylinder, the fermion field satisfies either spectral or MIT bag boundary conditions. We define rigidly rotating quantum states in both cases, assuming that the radius of the cylinder is sufficiently small that the speed-of-light surface is excluded from the space-time. With this assumption, we calculate rigidly-rotating thermal expectation values of the fermion condensate, neutrino charge current and stress-energy tensor relative to the bounded vacuum state. These rigidly-rotating thermal expectation values are finite everywhere inside and on the surface of the cylinder and their detailed properties depend on the choice of boundary conditions. We also compute the Casimir divergence of the expectation values of these quantities in the bounded vacuum state relative to the unbounded Minkowski vacuum. We find that the rate of divergence of the Casimir expectation values depends on the conditions imposed on the boundary.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 American Physical Society. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Physical Review D. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | hep-th; hep-th |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Mathematics and Statistics (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL ST/L000520/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 06 May 2016 09:03 |
Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2020 16:04 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.104014 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:98077 |