Published August 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Electromagnetic field stress tensor between dielectric half-spaces

  • 1. Institute of Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155 (United States)

Description

The stress tensor for the quantized electromagnetic field is calculated in the region between a pair of dispersive, dielectric half-spaces. This generalizes the stress tensor for the Casimir energy to the case where the boundaries have finite reflectivity. We also include the effects of finite temperature. This allows us to discuss the circumstances under which the weak energy condition and the null energy condition can be violated in the presence of finite reflectivity and finite temperature

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
72
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 033001-033001.6
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2005 The American Physical Society