Some new results concerning the vacuum in Dirac’s hole theory
Date: Monday, July 10, 2006 @ 23:20:15 UTC
Topic: Science
by Dan Solomon/ Rauland-Borg Corporation
Abstract
In Dirac’s hole theory (HT), 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 HT with less energy than the vacuum state. It will be shown that energy can be extracted from the HT vacuum state through application of an electric field.
...In the following discussion, a specified electric field will be applied to a system that is initially in the HT vacuum state. The vacuum electrons are perturbed by the electric field according to the Dirac equation. The change in energy of each vacuum electron can be calculated. For the specific electric field used in this paper, the change in energy of each vacuum electron will be shown to be negative. This means that the total change in the vacuum energy will be negative since the change in the vacuum energy is the sum of the change in the energy of each vacuum electron. Therefore energy has been extracted from the vacuum state producing a new state whose energy is negative with respect to the initial unperturbed vacuum state...
Published in Physica Scripta 74 (2006) 117-122 (doi:10.1088/0031-8949/74/1/015)
Online at: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1402-4896/74/1/015/
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