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Quantum measurement information as a key to energy extraction from local vacuums
Phys. Rev. D 78, 045006 – Published 8 August, 2008
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.045006
Abstract
In this paper, a protocol is proposed in which energy extraction from local vacuum states is possible by using quantum measurement information for the vacuum state of quantum fields. In the protocol, Alice, who stays at a spatial point, excites the ground state of the fields by a local measurement. Consequently, wave packets generated by Alice’s measurement propagate the vacuum to spatial infinity. Let us assume that Bob stays away from Alice and fails to catch the excitation energy when the wave packets pass in front of him. Next Alice announces her local measurement result to Bob by classical communication. Bob performs a local unitary operation depending on the measurement result. In this process, positive energy is released from the fields to Bob’s apparatus of the unitary operation. In the field systems, wave packets are generated with negative energy around Bob’s location. Soon afterwards, the negative-energy wave packets begin to chase after the positive-energy wave packets generated by Alice and form loosely bound states.
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