1998/10/17 by Adonai S. Sant’Anna, Adonai S. Sant'Anna, Sant'Anna, Adonai S. +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9810054
3 pages, revtex, no figures, 9 references. This work is a new version of a paper submitted for publication in a major journal of physics
arxiv created 1998/10/17 · openalex publication_date 1998/10/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We propose that the quantum vacuum may be considered as a gas of virtual photons which carry a non-vanishing linear momentum as well as a non-vanishing energy. We study, in particular, the Casimir effect in order to show that these virtual photons should satisfy a Fermi-Dirac statistics, which implies a non-zero temperature of the vacuum state.