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Enhancement of fusion reactivities using non-Maxwellian energy distributions
Ben I. Squarer, Carlo Presilla, Roberto Onofrio
We discuss conditions for the enhancement of fusion reactivities arising from different choices of energy distribution functions for the reactants. The key element for potential ga…
Bounds to strong gravity from electron-positron annihilations near threshold
Nathaniel Alden, Roberto Onofrio
We discuss bounds to strong gravity arising from annihilation of electron and positrons and the corresponding enhancement of the cross section for the production of massive particl…
State dependence of tunneling processes and thermonuclear fusion
Roberto Onofrio, Carlo Presilla
We discuss the sensitivity of tunneling processes to the initial preparation of the quantum state. We compare the case of Gaussian wave packets of different positional variances us…
Uncertainty-principle noise in vacuum-tunneling transducers
Carlo Presilla, Roberto Onofrio, Mark F. Bocko
The fundamental sources of noise in a vacuum-tunneling probe used as an electromechanical transducer to monitor the location of a test mass are examined using a first-quantization…
On electrostatic and Casimir force measurements between conducting surfaces in a sphere-plane configuration
W. J. Kim, M. Brown-Hayes, D. A. R. Dalvit +2
We report on measurements of forces acting between two conducting surfaces in a spherical-plane configuration in the 35 nm-1 micrometer separation range. The measurements are obtai…
Modelling superradiant amplification of Casimir photons in very low dissipation cavities
J. H. Brownell, W. J. Kim, R. Onofrio
Recent advances in nanotechnology and atomic physics may allow for a demonstration of the dynamical Casimir effect. An array of film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs) coherently dri…