We show through Schwinger's approach that in a static weak gravitational
background, the Casimir Energy for a real massless scalar field obeying
Dirichlet boundary conditions on rectangular plates is unaltered from
it's flat space-time value, at least to second order in the
gravitational parameters. The result is obtained considering an rather
general class of backgrounds, adding further generality and consistency
test for the previous work. The proposed result has direct consequences
on earlier works in the literature that found gravity related
corrections for similar setups and in the measurability of future vacuum
weight experiments. We also investigate higher order corrections using a
simplified toy model geometry, finding nonzero corrections in this case.
%0 Journal Article
%1 WOS:000620675000056
%A Lima, A P C M
%A Alencar, G
%A Landim, R R
%C TEMPLE CIRCUS, TEMPLE WAY, BRISTOL BS1 6BE, ENGLAND
%D 2021
%I IOP PUBLISHING LTD
%J JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
%K curved field gravity} on space; theory {quantum
%N 1
%R 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/01/056
%T Null second order corrections to Casimir energy in weak gravitational
field: the Schwinger's approach
%X We show through Schwinger's approach that in a static weak gravitational
background, the Casimir Energy for a real massless scalar field obeying
Dirichlet boundary conditions on rectangular plates is unaltered from
it's flat space-time value, at least to second order in the
gravitational parameters. The result is obtained considering an rather
general class of backgrounds, adding further generality and consistency
test for the previous work. The proposed result has direct consequences
on earlier works in the literature that found gravity related
corrections for similar setups and in the measurability of future vacuum
weight experiments. We also investigate higher order corrections using a
simplified toy model geometry, finding nonzero corrections in this case.
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abstract = {We show through Schwinger's approach that in a static weak gravitational
background, the Casimir Energy for a real massless scalar field obeying
Dirichlet boundary conditions on rectangular plates is unaltered from
it's flat space-time value, at least to second order in the
gravitational parameters. The result is obtained considering an rather
general class of backgrounds, adding further generality and consistency
test for the previous work. The proposed result has direct consequences
on earlier works in the literature that found gravity related
corrections for similar setups and in the measurability of future vacuum
weight experiments. We also investigate higher order corrections using a
simplified toy model geometry, finding nonzero corrections in this case.},
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address = {TEMPLE CIRCUS, TEMPLE WAY, BRISTOL BS1 6BE, ENGLAND},
author = {Lima, A P C M and Alencar, G and Landim, R R},
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title = {Null second order corrections to Casimir energy in weak gravitational
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