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Colloquium: Stimulating uncertainty: Amplifying the quantum vacuum with superconducting circuits

P. D. Nation, J. R. Johansson,
M. P. Blencowe, and Franco Nori

In classical mechanics the "vacuum" is empty (nothingness). In contrast, the vacuum of quantum mechanics is a volatile sea of ephemeral virtual particles. This Colloquium describes several processes in which these vacuum fluctuations are amplified into real observable particles, and how superconducting circuits can be used to realize such amplification mechanisms, and therefore explore the properties of the quantum vacuum.

Stimulating Uncertainty

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