Some new results concerning the vacuum in Dirac's hole theory

DOI10.1088/0031-8949/74/1/015zbMATH Open1117.81094arXivquant-ph/0607037OpenAlexW2027481239MaRDI QIDQ5485577FDOQ5485577

Authors: Dan Solomon 

Publication date: 30 August 2006

Published in: Physica Scripta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In Dirac's hole theory the vacuum state is generally believed to be the state of minimum energy. It will be shown that this is not, in fact, the case and that there must exist states in hole theory with less energy than the vacuum state. It will be shown that energy can be extracted from the hole theory vacuum state through the application of an electric field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0607037

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

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