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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…
Spatially Averaged Quantum Inequalities Do Not Exist in Four-Dimensional Spacetime
L. H. Ford, Adam D. Helfer, Thomas A. Roman
We construct a particular class of quantum states for a massless, minimally coupled free scalar field which are of the form of a superposition of the vacuum and multi-mode two-part…
Focusing Vacuum Fluctuations II
L. H. Ford, N. F. Svaiter
The quantization of the scalar and electromagnetic fields in the presence of a parabolic mirror is further developed in the context of a geometric optics approximation. We extend r…
The Energy Density in the Casimir Effect
V. Sopova, L. H. Ford
We compute the expectations of the squares of the electric and magnetic fields in the vacuum region outside a half-space filled with a uniform dispersive dielectric. We find a posi…