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Vacuum fluctuations and Brownian motion of a charged test particle near a reflecting boundary
Hongwei Yu, L. H. Ford
We study the Brownian motion of a charged test particle coupled to electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations near a perfectly reflecting plane boundary. The presence of the boundary modi…
The Classical Singularity Theorems and their Quantum Loopholes
L. H. Ford
The singularity theorems of classical general relativity are briefly reviewed. The extent to which their conclusions might still apply when quantum theory is taken into account is…
What does Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime Have to Say about the Dark Energy?
L. H. Ford
The issue of the vacuum energy of quantum fields is briefly reviewed. It is argued that this energy is normally either much too large or much too small to account for the dark ener…
Quantum Gravity and Astrophysics: The Microwave Background and Other Thermal Sources
Rosanne Di Stefano, L. H. Ford, Hongwei Yu +1
The problem of formulating a fully consistent quantum gravity theory (QGT) has not yet been solved. Even before we are able to work out the details of a complete theory, however, w…
Stress Tensor Fluctuations and Passive Quantum Gravity
L. H. Ford, Chun-Hsien Wu
The quantum fluctuation of the stress tensor of a quantum field are discussed, as are the resulting spacetime metric fluctuations. Passive quantum gravity is an approximation in wh…
Quantum Lightcone Fluctuations in Theories with Extra Dimensions
Hongwei Yu, L. H. Ford
The effects of small extra dimensions upon quantum fluctuations of the lightcone are examined. We argue that compactified extra dimensions modify the quantum fluctuations of gravit…