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Vacuum Energy Density near Fluctuating Boundaries

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arxiv quant-ph/9804056 v2 pith:JNQV476G submitted 1998-04-23 quant-ph gr-qchep-th

Vacuum Energy Density near Fluctuating Boundaries

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The imposition of boundary conditions upon a quantized field can lead to singular energy densities on the boundary. We treat the boundaries as quantum mechanical objects with a nonzero position uncertainty, and show that the singular energy density is removed. This treatment also resolves a long standing paradox concerning the total energy of the minimally coupled and conformally coupled scalar fields.

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