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Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions

  • Michael Bordag
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Part of the TEUBNER-TEXTE zur Physik book series (TTZP, volume 30)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages 1-9
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  2. Casimir Effect

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 11-11
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    2. Casimir Energy for a Spherical Cavity in a Dielectric: Toward a Model for Sonoluminescence?
      Kimball A. Milton
      Pages 13-23
    3. Conformal Invariance with Boundaries
      Hugh Osborn
      Pages 24-33
    4. Hard, Semihard and Soft Boundary Conditions
      Alfred Actor, Iring Bender
      Pages 34-42
    5. Quantum Radiation from Mirrors Moving Sideways
      Gabriel Barton
      Pages 43-44
    6. Sonoluminescence as Quantum Vacuum Radiation
      Claudia Eberlein
      Pages 45-45
    7. Dynamical Casimir Effect, “Particle Emission” and Squeezing
      Carlos Villarreal, R. Jáuregui, S. Hacyan
      Pages 46-46
    8. Photon Generation and Squeezing in a Cavity with Vibrating Walls
      Victor V. Dodonov
      Pages 47-49
    9. Fluctuations of the Casimir Pressure at Finite Temperature
      Dieter Robaschik
      Pages 50-53
    10. Casimir Theory for the Piecewise Uniform String
      Iver Brevik
      Pages 54-54
    11. Casimir Force Between Real Boundaries: Contributions of Mechanical and Electrical Imperfections
      Vladimir M. Mostepanenko
      Pages 55-56

  3. QED and QCD in External Fields

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 57-57
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    2. Renormalization Group Flow of the Chern-Simons Parameter
      Martin Reuter
      Pages 59-70
    3. The Effective Lagrangian of Arbitrary Inhomogeneous Electromagnetic Field
      Vladimir V. Skalozub, Andrei Yu. Tishchenko
      Pages 71-75
    4. Gauge Theories in a Bag
      Andreas Wipf
      Pages 76-85
    5. Instantons in the Bag Model: Matrix Elements of Scalar Propagator
      Alexei A. Abrikosov Jr.
      Pages 86-93
    6. QED in the External Aharonov-Bohm Field
      Jürgen Audretsch, Uwe Jasper, Vladimir D. Skarzhinsky
      Pages 94-94
    7. Quantum Fields in a Conical Background
      Edisom S. Moreira
      Pages 95-95
    8. Magnetic Response of the Many-Particle Chern-Simons Gauge Theory in (2+1) Dimensions
      Efrain J. Ferrer, Vivian de la Incera
      Pages 96-96
    9. Self-Interaction Force for Charged Particle in the Space-Time of Supermassive Cosmic String
      Nail R. Khusnutdinov
      Pages 97-98
    10. Exact Euler-Heisenberg Effective Action for Chiral Fermions in Some Special External Fields
      Gautam Bhattacharya
      Pages 99-102
    11. Energy-Momentum Tensor of Particles Created by an External Field
      Anatoli I. Nikishov
      Pages 103-103
    12. Nonlocality, Self-Adjointness of the Hamiltonian and Vacuum Polarization in Spaces with Nontrivial Topology
      Yurii A. Sitenko, S. A. Yushchenko
      Pages 104-104
    13. Hydrogen Atom in the Spacetime of a Cosmic String
      Sven Falkenberg
      Pages 105-107

  4. Ground State in External Fields

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 109-109
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    2. Functional Determinants on Möbius Corners
      J. Stuart Dowker
      Pages 111-121
    3. Applications of Zeta Function Regularization in QFT
      Emilio Elizalde
      Pages 122-130
    4. Ground State Energy in Smooth Background Fields
      Michael Bordag
      Pages 131-137
    5. Quantum Field Theory at Finite Temperature and Cosmological Perturbations
      Anton K. Rebhan
      Pages 138-149
    6. Algorithms for the Calculation of the Heat Kernel Coefficients
      Ivan G. Avramidi, Rainer Schimming
      Pages 150-162
    7. Finite Temperature Field Theory: Physical Effects of Nontrivial Spectral Functions
      Peter A. Henning
      Pages 163-163
    8. Bose-Einstein Condensation under External Conditions
      Klaus Kirsten
      Pages 164-164
    9. Speed of Light in Nontrivial Vacua
      José I. Latorre
      Pages 165-165
    10. Influence of Condensates and External Fields on Physical Effects in Gauge Theories
      Vladimir Ch. Zhukovsky
      Pages 166-167
    11. Effective Potential in Yang-Mills Theory and Stability of Chromomagnetic Vacuum
      Ivan G. Avramidi
      Pages 168-169
    12. Ground State Energy Density in Smooth Background Fields
      Joachim Lindig, Michael Bordag
      Pages 170-171

  5. Quantum Fields in Black Hole Background

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 173-173
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    2. Black Hole Entropy
      Valeri Frolov
      Pages 175-181
    3. Thermodynamic Features of Black Holes Dressed with Quantum Fields
      David Hochberg
      Pages 182-190
    4. Thermodynamics in D-dimensional Rindler-like Spaces
      Andrei A. Bytsenko, Guido Cognola, Luciano Vanzo, Sergio Zerbini
      Pages 191-202
    5. On the Quantum Stability of the Time Machine
      Sergey V. Krasnikov
      Pages 203-204
    6. Field Interaction Effects of a Charged String in a Magnetic Background
      Efrain J. Ferrer, Vivian de la Incera
      Pages 205-205
    7. A Selfconsistent Semiclassical Solution with a Wormhole in the Theory of Gravity
      Arkadiy Popov, Sergey Sushkov
      Pages 206-206

  6. Topics in (Quantum) Gravity and in Quantum Optics

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 207-207
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    2. General Quantization Anomaly in Bosonic String Theory Interacting with Background Gravitational Field
      Ioseph L. Buchbinder, B. R. Mistchuk, V. D. Pershin
      Pages 209-217
    3. Non-Local Properties in Euclidean Quantum Gravity
      Giampiero Esposito
      Pages 218-225
    4. Geroch—Kinnersley—Chitre Group for Dilaton—Axion Gravity
      Dmitri V. Gal’tsov
      Pages 226-237
    5. Geometric Quantization Of Kähler Spaces Admitting H-Projective Mappings
      Asya V. Aminova, Dmitri A. Kalinin
      Pages 237-247
    6. Renormalization Group Flow of the Chern-Simons Parameter
      Martin Reuter
      Pages 248-255

About this book

Introduction

This volume contains papers based on talks delivered at the Third Workshop on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions, held at the University of Leipzig in September 1995. Contents: Casimir Effect - QED and QCD in External Fields - Ground State in External Fields - Quantum Fields in Black Hole Background - Topics in (Quantum) Gravity and in Quantum Optics - Appendix: Program of the Workshop - List of Participants

Keywords

Casimir-Effekt Felder Feldtheorie Modell Quantenchromodynamik Quantenelektrodynamik Quantenfeld Quantenfeldtheorie Werkstoff Wärme

Editors and affiliations

  • Michael Bordag
    • 1
  1. 1.University of LeipzigDeutschland

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-01204-7
  • Copyright Information Vieweg+Teubner Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 1996
  • Publisher Name Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-3-663-01205-4
  • Online ISBN 978-3-663-01204-7
  • Series Print ISSN 0233-0911
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