Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1999-03-15
Phys.Rev. D61 (2000) 064005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
14 pages, 5 figures; several references added, a few minor changes and a typo in Figure 3 corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.064005
The quantum interest conjecture of Ford and Roman states that any negative energy flux in a free quantum field must be preceded or followed by a positive flux of greater magnitude, and the surplus of positive energy grows the further the positive and negative fluxes are apart. In addition, the maximum possible separation between the positive and negative energy decreases the larger the amount of negative energy. We prove that the quantum interest conjecture holds for arbitrary fluxes of non-interacting scalar fields in 4D Minkowski spacetime, and discuss the consequences in attempting to violate the second law of thermodynamics using negative energy. We speculate that quantum interest may also hold for the Electromagnetic and Dirac fields, and might be applied to certain curved spacetimes.
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