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Dynamical Casimir effect in curved spacetime
A boundary undergoing relativistic motion can create particles from quantum
vacuum fluctuations in a phenomenon known as the dynamical Casimir effect. We
examine the creation of particles, and more generally the transformation of
quantum field states, due to boundary motion in curved spacetime. We provide a
novel method enabling the calculation of the effect for a wide range of
trajectories and spacetimes. We apply this to the experimental scenario used to
detect the dynamical Casimir effect, now adopting the Schwarzschild metric, and
find novel resonances in particle creation as a result of the spacetime
curvature. Finally, we discuss a potential enhancement of the effect for the
phonon field of a Bose-Einstein condensate.Comment: 17 pages, 0 figures, 2 appendice
Universal quantum modifications to general relativistic time dilation in delocalised clocks
The theory of relativity associates a proper time with each moving object via
its world line. In quantum theory however, such well-defined trajectories are
forbidden. After introducing a general characterisation of quantum clocks, we
demonstrate that, in the weak-field, low-velocity limit, all "good" quantum
clocks experience time dilation as dictated by general relativity when their
state of motion is classical (i.e. Gaussian). For nonclassical states of
motion, on the other hand, we find that quantum interference effects may give
rise to a significant discrepancy between the proper time and the time measured
by the clock. The universality of this discrepancy implies that it is not
simply a systematic error, but rather a quantum modification to the proper time
itself. We also show how the clock's delocalisation leads to a larger
uncertainty in the time it measures -- a consequence of the unavoidable
entanglement between the clock time and its center-of-mass degrees of freedom.
We demonstrate how this lost precision can be recovered by performing a
measurement of the clock's state of motion alongside its time reading.Comment: 7 + 10 pages. V3: accepted versio
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A new fault-tolerant system software concept employing the primary digital computers as host for the backup software portion has been implemented and flight tested in the F-8 digital fly-by-wire airplane. The system was implemented in such a way that essentially no transients occurred in transferring from primary to backup software. This was accomplished without a significant increase in the complexity of the backup software. The primary digital system was frame synchronized, which provided several advantages in implementing the resident backup software system. Since the time of the flight tests, two other flight vehicle programs have made a commitment to incorporate resident backup software similar in nature to the system described in this paper
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