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Electric Field and Voltage Fluctuations in the Casimir Effect
L. H. Ford
The effects of reflecting boundaries on vacuum electric field fluctuations are treated. The presence of the boundaries can enhance these fluctuations and possibly lead to observabl…
Vacuum Radiation Pressure Fluctuations on Atoms
L. H. Ford
Recent work has shown that the stress tensor components, such as energy density or pressure, of a quantum field can be subject to large vacuum fluctuations. The energy density or p…
Large Zero Point Density Fluctuations in Fluids
Peter Wu, L. H. Ford
Zero point density fluctuations in a liquid and their potential observation by light scattering are discussed. It is suggested that there are two distinct effects of interest. One…
Quantum induced birefringence in nonlinear optical materials
V. A. De Lorenci, L. H. Ford
The influence of quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field on the propagation of a polarized light wave in a nonlinear dielectric is investigated. It is shown that in some…
Maximal Subvacuum Effects: A Single Mode Example
Anastasia Korolov, L. H. Ford
We discuss an example of a subvacuum effect, where a quantum expectation value is below the vacuum level, and is hence negative. The example is the time average of the mean squared…
Subvacuum effects on light propagation
V. A. De Lorenci, L. H. Ford
Subvacuum effects arise in quantum field theory when a classically positive quantity, such as the local energy density, acquires a negative renormalized expectation value. Here we…