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Probability distributions for quantum stress tensors in four dimensions
Christopher J. Fewster, L. H. Ford, Thomas A. Roman
We treat the probability distributions for quadratic quantum fields, averaged with a Lorentzian test function, in four-dimensional Minkowski vacuum. These distributions share some…
Probability distributions of smeared quantum stress tensors
Christopher J. Fewster, L. H. Ford, Thomas A. Roman
We obtain in closed form the probability distribution for individual measurements of the stress-energy tensor of two-dimensional conformal field theory in the vacuum state, smeared…
Effects of Vacuum Fluctuation Suppression on Atomic Decay Rates
L. H. Ford, Thomas A. Roman
The use of atomic decay rates as a probe of sub-vacuum phenomena will be studied. Because electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations are essential for radiative decay of excited atomic st…
Energy Density-Flux Correlations in an Unusual Quantum State and in the Vacuum
L. H. Ford, Thomas A. Roman
In this paper we consider the question of the degree to which negative and positive energy are intertwined. We examine in more detail a previously studied quantum state of the mass…
Negative Energy in Superposition and Entangled States
L. H. Ford, Thomas A. Roman
We examine the maximum negative energy density which can be attained in various quantum states of a massless scalar field. We consider states in which either one or two modes are e…