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Testing Quantum Electrodynamics: Vacuum Polarizability and Casimir Forces

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Coherence and Quantum Optics VII

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Besides ruling the dynamics of electric charged particles and photons in the microscopic domain, quantization of the electromagnetic field gives also rise to macroscopic observable effects. We report on the status of two experiments we are carrying out at the INFN Legnaro Laboratories on macroscopic phenomena of the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics, the birefringence induced by a magnetic field and the Casimir forces.

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  1. INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    D. Bakalov, G. Cantatore, F. Della Valle, E. Milotti, C. Rizzo & E. Zavattini

  2. INRNE, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    D. Bakalov

  3. Dipartimento di Fisica,Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    G. Cantatore, F. Della Valle, E. Milotti & E. Zavattini

  4. INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy

    G. Carugno & R. Onofrio

  5. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università, di Pisa and INFN, Pisa, Italy

    S. Carusotto, F. Perrone & E. Polacco

  6. Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN,Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    A. De Riva & G. Zavattini

  7. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnano, Legnaro, Italy

    P. Favaron, Z. Fontana, U. Gastaldi, R. Pengo, G. Petrucci, C. Rizzo & G. Ruoso

  8. Dipartimento di Fisica ”G. Galilei”, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy

    Z. Fontana & R. Onofrio

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  1. University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

    Joseph H. Eberly , Leonard Mandel  & Emil Wolf ,  & 

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Bakalov, D. et al. (1996). Testing Quantum Electrodynamics: Vacuum Polarizability and Casimir Forces. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9742-8_73

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