Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions: Teubner Texte zur Physik, cartea 30

Casimir Energy for a Spherical Cavity in a Dielectric: Toward a Model for Sonoluminescence?.- Conformal Invariance with Boundaries.- Hard, Semihard and Soft Boundary Conditions.- Quantum Radiation from Mirrors Moving Sideways.- Sonoluminescence as Quantum Vacuum Radiation.- Dynamical Casimir Effect, “Particle Emission” and Squeezing.- Photon Generation and Squeezing in a Cavity with Vibrating Walls.- Fluctuations of the Casimir Pressure at Finite Temperature.- Casimir Theory for the Piecewise Uniform String.- Casimir Force Between Real Boundaries: Contributions of Mechanical and Electrical Imperfections.- Renormalization Group Flow of the Chern-Simons Parameter.- The Effective Lagrangian of Arbitrary Inhomogeneous Electromagnetic Field.- Gauge Theories in a Bag.- Instantons in the Bag Model: Matrix Elements of Scalar Propagator.- QED in the External Aharonov-Bohm Field.- Quantum Fields in a Conical Background.- Magnetic Response of the Many-Particle Chern-Simons Gauge Theory in (2+1) Dimensions.- Self-Interaction Force for Charged Particle in the Space-Time of Supermassive Cosmic String.- Exact Euler-Heisenberg Effective Action for Chiral Fermions in Some Special External Fields.- Energy-Momentum Tensor of Particles Created by an External Field.- Nonlocality, Self-Adjointness of the Hamiltonian and Vacuum Polarization in Spaces with Nontrivial Topology.- Hydrogen Atom in the Spacetime of a Cosmic String.- Functional Determinants on Möbius Corners.- Applications of Zeta Function Regularization in QFT.- Ground State Energy in Smooth Background Fields.- Quantum Field Theory at Finite Temperature and Cosmological Perturbations.- Algorithms for the Calculation of the Heat Kernel Coefficients.- Finite Temperature Field Theory: Physical Effects of Nontrivial SpectralFunctions.- Bose-Einstein Condensation under External Conditions.- Speed of Light in Nontrivial Vacua.- Influence of Condensates and External Fields on Physical Effects in Gauge Theories.- Effective Potential in Yang-Mills Theory and Stability of Chromomagnetic Vacuum.- Ground State Energy Density in Smooth Background Fields.- Black Hole Entropy.- Thermodynamic Features of Black Holes Dressed with Quantum Fields.- Thermodynamics in D-dimensional Rindler-like Spaces.- On the Quantum Stability of the Time Machine.- Field Interaction Effects of a Charged String in a Magnetic Background.- A Selfconsistent Semiclassical Solution with a Wormhole in the Theory of Gravity.- General Quantization Anomaly in Bosonic String Theory Interacting with Background Gravitational Field.- Non-Local Properties in Euclidean Quantum Gravity.- Geroch—Kinnersley—Chitre Group for Dilaton—Axion Gravity.- Geometric Quantization of Kähler Spaces Admitting H-Projective Mappings.- Renormalization Group and Effective Action in Renormalizable Quantum Gravity with Matter.- Phase Structure of 2D Gross-Neveu Model in Spacetimes of Constant Curvature.- Spinning Particles in Taub-NUT Background.- Quantum Optics of Accelerated 2-level Systems on Arbitrary Stationary Trajectories.- Radiation-Field Quantization for Linear Dielectrics through Green’s Function Expansion.- Localization of Electromagnetic Waves in two Dimensions.- Spontaneous Emission by Atoms near a Dielectric Waveguide.- The Vacuum of (QED)0+1 and Functional Integral Measure with Boundary Conditions.- VI Appendix.- Program of the Workshop.- List of Participants.

This volume contains papers based on talks delivered at the Third Workshop on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions, held at the University of Leipzig in September 1995. Contents: Casimir Effect - QED and QCD in External Fields - Ground State in External Fields - Quantum Fields in Black Hole Background - Topics in (Quantum) Gravity and in Quantum Optics - Appendix: Program of the Workshop - List of Participants