QED between parallel mirrors: light signals faster than c, or amplified by the vacuum
- 21 April 1993
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 26 (8) , 2037-2046
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/26/8/024
Abstract
Because it is scattered by the zero-point oscillations of the quantized fields, light of frequency omega travelling normally to two parallel mirrors experiences the vacuum between them as a dispersive medium with refractive index n( omega ). An earlier low-frequency result that n(0)4, i.e. that n( infinity )=n(0) up to corrections of order e6 at most.Keywords
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