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quant-ph1998
The Casimir Effect and Thermodynamic Instability
A. Widom, E. Sassaroli, Y. N. Srivastava +1
One loop field theory calculations of free energies quite often yield violations of the stability conditions associated with the thermodynamic second law. Perhaps the best known ex…
quant-ph1998
Acuasal Behavior in Quantum Electrodynamics
A. Widom, Y. N. Srivastava, E. Sassaroli
Acausal features of quantum electrodynamic processes are discussed. While these processes are not present for the classical electrodynamic theory, in the quantum electrodynamic the…