2001/04/14 by Marco Scandurra, M. Scandurra, Scandurra, M. · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0104127
15 pages, 1 figure; corrected typos
openalex publication_date 2001/04/14 · arxiv created 2001/04/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
An extension of the fundamental laws of thermodynamics and of the concept of entropy to the ground state fluctuations of the quantum fields is studied and some new results are found. At the end a device to extract energy from the vacuum recently proposed by an author is critically analyzed. It is found that no energy can be extracted cyclically from the vacuum.