The temperature of the quantum vacuum
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vacuumnon-vanishingphotonsquantumtemperaturevirtualcarrycasimir
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We propose that the quantum vacuum may be considered as a gas of virtual photons which carry a non-vanishing linear momentum as well as a non-vanishing energy. We study, in particular, the Casimir effect in order to show that these virtual photons should satisfy a Fermi-Dirac statistics, which implies a non-zero temperature of the vacuum state.
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