Speaker
Luciano Petruzziello
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Description
In this talk, I explore the Casimir effect for a massless scalar field in the context of a generic curved background. In this perspective, the mean vacuum energy density and the pressure between the binding plates are the relevant physical objects to evaluate. After the above general discussion, a systematic procedure to derive interesting pieces of information on the free parameters of extended theories of gravity is presented. In particular, I focus the attention on some recent results regarding the Standard Model Extension and several quadratic models of gravity.
Primary authors
Luciano Petruzziello
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Gaetano Lambiase
(SA)
Luca Buoninfante
(SA)
Massimo Blasone
(SA)
Dr
Antonio Stabile
(INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Gruppo collegato di Salerno)
