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Minkowski Vacuum Stress Tensor Fluctuations
L. H. Ford, Thomas A. Roman
We study the fluctuations of the stress tensor for a massless scalar field in two and four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime in the vacuum state. Covariant expressions for the stress…
Spacetime in Semiclassical Gravity
L. H. Ford
This article will summarize selected aspects of the semiclassical theory of gravity, which involves a classical gravitational field coupled to quantum matter fields. Among the issu…
The Electromagnetic Field Stress Tensor between Dielectric Half-Spaces
V. Sopova, L. H. Ford
The stress tensor for the quantized electromagnetic field is calculated in the region between a pair of dispersive, dielectric half-spaces. This generalizes the stress tensor for t…
Stochastic Spacetime and Brownian Motion of Test Particles
L. H. Ford
The operational meaning of spacetime fluctuations is discussed. Classical spacetime geometry can be viewed as encoding the relations between the motions of test particles in the ge…