Anomalous Casimir effect in an expanding ring

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08610v3
• Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:55:18 GMT
• Title: Anomalous Casimir effect in an expanding ring
• Abstract summary: The Casimir effect is a macroscopic evidence of the quantum nature of the vacuum. In this work, we show that this vacuum's energy and pressure acquire additional, sizable corrections, when the ring's radius is increased fast enough.
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• Abstract: The Casimir effect is a macroscopic evidence of the quantum nature of the vacuum. On a ring, it leads to a finite size correction to the vacuum energy. In this work, we show that this vacuum's energy and pressure acquire additional, sizable corrections, when the ring's radius is increased fast enough, an experimentally accessible model of an expanding universe. This effect is distinct from the dynamical Casimir effect: it is a manifestation of the conformal anomaly, originating from the spacetime curvature induced by the increase of the ring's radius. This anomalous dynamical Casimir effect is measurable through the work necessary to increase the ring size, which becomes non-monotonous in time.

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