Investigation of the quantum vacuum as an energy sink for subcritical and supercritical vaporization lasers
Jeffrey S. Lee,
Gerald B. Cleaver
Affiliations
Jeffrey S. Lee
Early Universe Cosmology and Strings Group, Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research
Gerald B. Cleaver
Early Universe Cosmology and Strings Group, Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research; Department of Physics, Baylor University, One Bear Place, Waco, TX 76706; Corresponding author.
In this paper, it is shown that the quantum electrodynamic vacuum particle production rate by a vaporization laser is negligible and is not a significant energy sink at electric field strengths beyond the Schwinger Limit.
