Quantum energy inequalities for the non-minimally coupled scalar field
Abstract
In this paper, we discuss local averages of the energy density for the non-minimally coupled scalar quantum field, extending a previous investigation of the classical field. By an explicit example, we show that such averages are unbounded from below on the class of Hadamard states. This contrasts with the minimally coupled field, which obeys a state-independent lower bound known as a quantum energy inequality (QEI). Nonetheless, we derive a generalized QEI for the non-minimally coupled scalar field, in which the lower bound is permitted to be state-dependent. This result applies to general globally hyperbolic curved spacetimes for coupling constants in the range 0 < ξ ⩽ 1/4. We analyse the state dependence of our QEI in four-dimensional Minkowski space and show that it is a non-trivial restriction on the averaged energy density in the sense that the lower bound is of lower order, in energetic terms, than the averaged energy density itself.
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