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Scientists Generated "Impossible" Photons Directly from Quantum Vacuum

7 points by vednig 1y ago

westurner 1y ago
NewsArticle: "Oxford physicists recreate extreme quantum vacuum effects" (2025) https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-physicists-recreate-extreme-quantum-vacuum-effects https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-physicists-recreate... NewsArticle: "Photons collide in the void: Quantum simulation creates light out of nothing" (2025) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250608072527.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250608072527.h... ScholarlyArticle: "Computational modelling of the semi-classical quantum vacuum in 3D" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02128-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02128-8 OSIRIS docs: https://osiris-code.github.io/documentation/ https://osiris-code.github.io/documentation/ OSIRIS docs > Reference guide > Input file structure: https://osiris-code.github.io/osiris/reference/ https://osiris-code.github.io/osiris/reference/ OSIRIS docs > Checkpointing: https://osiris-code.github.io/documentation/checkpointing https://osiris-code.github.io/documentation/checkpointing OSIRIS Consortium: https://osiris-code.github.io/consortium/ https://osiris-code.github.io/consortium/ ; like OpenMPI: > The goal of the open-source OSIRIS project is to provide a large user base with a flexible software framework to study a variety of physics problems within high energy density plasma science, plasma-based acceleration, space and astrophysics, the nonlinear optics of plasmas, QED and other exotic plasmas, and high-intensity laser and beam plasma interactions. OSIRIS PIC source: https://github.com/osiris-code/osiris/tree/main/source https://github.com/osiris-code/osiris/tree/main/source (Fortran) Do such extreme quantum vacuum effects affect the 100 Gbit/s of random at that point in quantum foam spacetime? [1] 1. "100-Gbit/s Integrated Quantum Random Number Generator Based on Vacuum Fluctuations" https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.010330 https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.010330 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497414 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497414 : >> google/paranoid_crypto.lib.randomness_tests

7 points by vednig 1y ago

NewsArticle: "Oxford physicists recreate extreme quantum vacuum effects" (2025) https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-physicists-recreate-extreme-quantum-vacuum-effects https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-physicists-recreate... NewsArticle: "Photons collide in the void: Quantum simulation creates light out of nothing" (2025) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250608072527.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250608072527.h... ScholarlyArticle: "Computational modelling of the semi-classical quantum vacuum in 3D" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02128-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02128-8 OSIRIS docs: https://osiris-code.github.io/documentation/ https://osiris-code.github.io/documentation/ OSIRIS docs > Reference guide > Input file structure: https://osiris-code.github.io/osiris/reference/ https://osiris-code.github.io/osiris/reference/ OSIRIS docs > Checkpointing: https://osiris-code.github.io/documentation/checkpointing https://osiris-code.github.io/documentation/checkpointing OSIRIS Consortium: https://osiris-code.github.io/consortium/ https://osiris-code.github.io/consortium/ ; like OpenMPI: > The goal of the open-source OSIRIS project is to provide a large user base with a flexible software framework to study a variety of physics problems within high energy density plasma science, plasma-based acceleration, space and astrophysics, the nonlinear optics of plasmas, QED and other exotic plasmas, and high-intensity laser and beam plasma interactions. OSIRIS PIC source: https://github.com/osiris-code/osiris/tree/main/source https://github.com/osiris-code/osiris/tree/main/source (Fortran) Do such extreme quantum vacuum effects affect the 100 Gbit/s of random at that point in quantum foam spacetime? [1] 1. "100-Gbit/s Integrated Quantum Random Number Generator Based on Vacuum Fluctuations" https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.010330 https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.010330 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497414 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497414 : >> google/paranoid_crypto.lib.randomness_tests