Exact Calculation of the Capacitance and the Electrostatic Potential Energy for a Nonlinear Parallel-Plate Capacitor in a Two-Parameter Modification of Born-Infeld Electrodynamics

Abstract: The nonlinear capacitors are important devices in modern technologies and applied physics. The aim of this paper is to calculate exactly the capacitance and the electrostatic potential energy of a nonlinear parallel-plate capacitor by using a two-parameter modification of Born-Infeld electrodynamics. Our calculations show that the capacitance and the electrostatic potential energy of a nonlinear parallel-plate capacitor in modified Born-Infeld theory have the weak field expansions $C=\frac{\epsilon_{0} A}{d}+{\cal O}(q^{2})$ and $U=\frac{q^{2}}{2(\frac{\epsilon_{0} A}{d})}+{\cal O}(q^{4})$, where $q$ is the amount of electric charge on each plate of the capacitor. It is demonstrated that the results of this paper are in agreement with the results of Maxwell electrodynamics for weak electric fields. Numerical evaluations show that the nonlinear electrodynamical effects in modified Born-Infeld theory are negligible in the weak field regime.