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The vacuum state and minimum energy in Dirac's hole theory

2012/08/07 by Dan Solomon, Solomon, Dan
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #physics.gen-ph #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1208.1309

10 pages

arxiv created 2012/08/07 · arxiv updated 2012/08/08

Abstract

In Dirac's hole theory the vacuum state is assumed to be the state where all negative energy states are occupied and all positive energy states are unoccupied. This is often referred to as the Dirac sea. It is generally assumed that the Dirac sea is the minimum possible energy state. However it will be shown in this paper that this is not the case.

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