{
  "id": "hep-th/0606042",
  "version": "v5",
  "published": "2006-06-06T09:45:49.000Z",
  "updated": "2008-04-09T13:59:22.000Z",
  "title": "Energy-momentum tensor for a Casimir apparatus in a weak gravitational field",
  "authors": [
    "Giuseppe Bimonte",
    "Enrico Calloni",
    "Giampiero Esposito",
    "Luigi Rosa"
  ],
  "comment": "Equations (4.4), (5.1), (5.2), (5.4), (B9) have been amended, while equations (5.7) and (5.8) have been deleted. Comments have been amended accordingly",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.D74:085011,2006; Erratum-ibid.D75:049904,2007; Erratum-ibid.D75:089901,2007; Erratum-ibid.D77:109903,2008",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.74.085011",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "The influence of the gravity acceleration on the regularized energy-momentum tensor of the quantized electromagnetic field between two plane parallel conducting plates is derived. We use Fermi coordinates and work to first order in the constant acceleration parameter. A perturbative expansion, to this order, of the Green functions involved and of the energy-momentum tensor is derived by means of the covariant geodesic point splitting procedure. In correspondence to the Green functions satisfying mixed and gauge-invariant boundary conditions, and Ward identities, the energy-momentum tensor is covariantly conserved and satisfies the expected relation between gauge-breaking and ghost parts. A more systematic derivation is therefore obtained of the theoretical prediction according to which the Casimir device in a weak gravitational field will experience a tiny push in the upwards direction.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v5",
      "updated": "2008-04-09T13:59:22.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03.70.+k",
      "04.60.Ds"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "weak gravitational field",
      "energy-momentum tensor",
      "casimir apparatus",
      "covariant geodesic point splitting procedure",
      "green functions"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. D"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 718623
    }
  }
}