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Quantum Electric Field Fluctuations and Potential Scattering

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arxiv 1503.02962 v1 pith:QJ2XFTI2 submitted 2015-03-10 hep-th gr-qcquant-ph

Quantum Electric Field Fluctuations and Potential Scattering

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keywords electricfieldfluctuationsquantumpotentialprobabilityscatteringtime
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Some physical effects of time averaged quantum electric field fluctuations are discussed. The one loop radiative correction to potential scattering are approximately derived from simple arguments which invoke vacuum electric field fluctuations. For both above barrier scattering and quantum tunneling, this effect increases the transmission probability. It is argued that the shape of the potential determines a sampling function for the time averaging of the quantum electric field operator. We also suggest that there is a nonperturbative enhancement of the transmission probability which can be inferred from the probability distribution for time averaged electric field fluctuations.

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