4 ms·
Phonon heat transfer across a vacuum through quantum fluctuations
- ArtWomb 7y ago>>> phonon coupling across a vacuum Massive. Quantum fluctuations of vacuum energy seem to hint that the structure of spacetime holds within it the "potential" for particles to exist. And that alone is enough for them to eventually come into being, given long enough time scales. >>> paves the way for the exploitation of quantum vacuum in energy transport at the nanoscale I think that exploitation is very much still theoretical. But the estimated "payout" of, say, having programmatic control over radioactive decay is infinite. Devices that can actually interact and measure properties of quantum vacuum seem to be an excellent starting point ;) Correlations detected in a quantum vacuum https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01083-z https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01083-z