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Quantum Vacuum, Confinement, and Acceleration

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Vacuum Structure in Intense Fields

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Hawking radiaton by black holes [1] can be understood in terms of the Doppler distortion undergone by the modes of a quantum vacuum field in the presence of a gravitational source [2]. A very different phenomenum, the Casimir effect [3], arises from the distortion of the vacuum produced by boundaries. Both phenomena have a common origin: they are manifestations of the restrictions that event horizons or physical boundaries impose to a quantum vacuum field. Such restrictions may confer to the vacuum state a complex structure. The vacuum structure will be analysed here for inertial and non-inertial observers in vacua confined by boundaries. Gravitational effects will be analysed elsewhere in this book by A. Sarmiento.

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  1. Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. Postal 20-364, México 1000 D.F., Mexico

    Carlos Villarreal

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  1. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

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  2. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

    Berndt Müller

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Villarreal, C. (1991). Quantum Vacuum, Confinement, and Acceleration. In: Fried, H.M., Müller, B. (eds) Vacuum Structure in Intense Fields. NATO ASI Series, vol 255. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0441-9_27

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