Fermionic Casimir memory from an anisotropic gravitational pulse
Abstract
We investigate the late-time energy deposited by a weak, spatially homogeneous anisotropic gravitational pulse in a massless Dirac field confined between two static parallel plates. The field satisfies MIT bag boundary conditions, while the prescribed geometry approaches Minkowski spacetime in both asymptotic time regions. Using a tetrad formulation, we show that the linear spin-connection contribution cancels for the traceless anisotropy, leaving a coupling to the shear component of the Dirac stress tensor. The pulse produces real fermion--antifermion pairs, whose deposited energy is evaluated through the corresponding Bogoliubov coefficients. Subtracting the production in unbounded space isolates a finite boundary-dependent contribution governed by the pulse duration relative to the characteristic spectral timescale set by the MIT gap. This contribution is negative in the adiabatic regime, where confinement suppresses excitations relative to the continuous free spectrum, and approaches zero from above in the impulsive limit. The resulting pressure correction is nonmonotonic and exhibits two sign changes, alternately reinforcing and reducing the ordinary attractive Casimir force. Unlike the bosonic vacuum-polarization memory previously obtained for the same class of backgrounds, the present effect is a dissipative fermionic memory carried by gravitationally created pairs. Here, memory denotes the persistent late-time modification of the quantum state after the pulse has vanished.
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BibTeX
@misc{muniz2026fermionic,
title = {{Fermionic Casimir memory from an anisotropic gravitational pulse}},
author = {Celio R. Muniz and Herondy F. Santana Mota},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.05666},
eprint = {2609.05666},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05666},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Fermionic Casimir memory from an anisotropic gravitational pulse
AU - Celio R. Muniz
AU - Herondy F. Santana Mota
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/04
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.05666
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05666
AB - We investigate the late-time energy deposited by a weak, spatially homogeneous anisotropic gravitational pulse in a massless Dirac field confined between two static parallel plates. The field satisfies MIT bag boundary conditions, while the prescribed geometry approaches Minkowski spacetime in both asymptotic time regions. Using a tetrad formulation, we show that the linear spin-connection contribution cancels for the traceless anisotropy, leaving a coupling to the shear component of the Dirac stress tensor. The pulse produces real fermion--antifermion pairs, whose deposited energy is evaluated through the corresponding Bogoliubov coefficients. Subtracting the production in unbounded space isolates a finite boundary-dependent contribution governed by the pulse duration relative to the characteristic spectral timescale set by the MIT gap. This contribution is negative in the adiabatic regime, where confinement suppresses excitations relative to the continuous free spectrum, and approaches zero from above in the impulsive limit. The resulting pressure correction is nonmonotonic and exhibits two sign changes, alternately reinforcing and reducing the ordinary attractive Casimir force. Unlike the bosonic vacuum-polarization memory previously obtained for the same class of backgrounds, the present effect is a dissipative fermionic memory carried by gravitationally created pairs. Here, memory denotes the persistent late-time modification of the quantum state after the pulse has vanished.
ER -