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View SchemaThe temperature of the quantum vacuum
| Authors | Adonai S. Sant'Anna, Daniel C. Freitas |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9810054 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9810054 |
Abstract
We propose that the quantum vacuum may be considered as a gas of virtual photons which carry a non-vanishing linear momentum as well as a non-vanishing energy. We study, in particular, the Casimir effect in order to show that these virtual photons should satisfy a Fermi-Dirac statistics, which implies a non-zero temperature of the vacuum state.
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