Published November 15, 2004
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Journal article
Energy conditions outside a dielectric ball
- 1. Institute of Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155 (United States)
- 2. Department of Physics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (United States)
Description
We show analytically that the vacuum electromagnetic stress-energy tensor outside a ball with constant dielectric constant and permeability always obeys the weak, null, dominant, and strong energy conditions. There are still no known examples in quantum field theory in which the averaged null energy condition in flat spacetime is violated
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.105019;
- arXiv
- arXiv:gr-qc/0407006v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 70
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Journal Page Range
- p. 105019-105019.8
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37014052
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CASIMIR EFFECT; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; PERMITTIVITY; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; SPACE-TIME; STRESSES; TENSORS
- Descriptors DEC
- DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRODYNAMICS; FIELD THEORIES; MATERIALS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2004 The American Physical Society