Gravitational effects on a rigid Casimir cavity
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Vacuum fluctuations produce a force acting on a rigid Casimir cavity in a weak gravitational field. Such a force is here evaluated and is found to have opposite direction with respect to the gravitational acceleration; the order of magnitude for a multi-layer cavity configuration is analyzed and experimental detection is discussed, bearing in mind the current technological resources.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0109142,
title = {Gravitational effects on a rigid Casimir cavity},
author = {Enrico Calloni and Luciano Di Fiore and Giampiero Esposito and Leopoldo Milano and Luigi Rosa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0109142},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, Latex. Talk given at the Fifth Leipzig Workshop on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions, September 2001