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Enhanced radiometric forces
Marco Scandurra
Crookes' Radiometer exploits thermal forces arising from temperature gradients in rarefied gases. This instrument has remained confined to educational physics because of the very s…
Quantum vacuum pressure on a conducting slab
Marco Scandurra
The casimir pressure on a non ideal conducting slab is calculated. Using a simple model for the conductivity according to which the slab is perfectly conducting at frequencies belo…
QFT Limit of the Casimir Force
Marco Scandurra
High precision measurements of the Casimir effect and recent applications to micro electromechanical systems raise the question of how large the Casimir force can be made in an arb…
Some remarks on black hole temperature and the second law of thermodynamics
M. Scandurra
I present a formulation of the second law of thermodynamics in the presence of black holes which makes use of the efficiency of an ideal machine extracting heat cyclically from a b…
Thermodynamic properties of the quantum vacuum
M. Scandurra
An extension of the fundamental laws of thermodynamics and of the concept of entropy to the ground state fluctuations of the quantum fields is studied and some new results are foun…
Vacuum energy in the background of delta potentials
M. Scandurra
The response of vacuum to the presence of external conditions is the subject of this work. We consider a generalization of the Casimir effect in the presence of curved boundaries o…