Motion induced by asymmetric excitation of the quantum vacuum

TL;DR

This paper explores a novel scenario where an object at rest begins to move due to asymmetric excitation of the quantum vacuum caused by its own changing parameters, reversing traditional excitation paradigms.

Contribution

It introduces a new model where an object's motion is induced by its own asymmetric quantum vacuum excitation, a departure from previous studies of vacuum excitation by external motion.

Findings

Proposes a model of self-induced motion via quantum vacuum excitation.

Demonstrates asymmetric excitation can lead to motion initiation.

Provides theoretical insights into quantum vacuum interactions with matter.

Abstract

During the last fifty-one years, the effect of excitation of the quantum vacuum field induced by its coupling with a moving object has been systematically studied. Here, we propose and investigate a somewhat inverted setting: an object, initially at rest, whose motion becomes induced by an excitation of the quantum vacuum caused by the object itself. In the present model, this excitation occurs asymmetrically on different sides of the object by a variation in time of one of its characteristic parameters, which couple it with the quantum vacuum field.