ELECTROMAGNETIC DARK ENERGY

DOI10.1142/S0218271808011870zbMATH Open1153.85002arXivastro-ph/0703364OpenAlexW3100301334MaRDI QIDQ3527367FDOQ3527367

M. C. Mackey, Christian Beck

Publication date: 29 September 2008

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a new model for dark energy in the universe in which a small cosmological constant is generated by ordinary electromagnetic vacuum energy. The corresponding virtual photons exist at all frequencies but switch from a gravitationally active phase at low frequencies to a gravitationally inactive phase at higher frequencies via a Ginzburg-Landau type of phase transition. Only virtual photons in the gravitationally active state contribute to the cosmological constant. A small vacuum energy density, consistent with astronomical observations, is naturally generated in this model. We propose possible laboratory tests for such a scenario based on phase synchronisation in superconductors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703364

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantsuperconductorsvacuum fluctuations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Black holes (83C57) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Cites Work

• The cosmological constant and dark energy
• DYNAMICS OF DARK ENERGY
• The cosmological constant problem
• Irreversibility and Generalized Noise
• On the interaction of mesoscopic quantum systems with gravity

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