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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency is dated 11 January 2011. It was produced in FY 2010 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It reviews negative, or sub-vacuum, energy found in squeezed light and the Casimir effect, and explains quantum optical homodyne tomography as a way to measure and map that energy in the lab. It proposes balanced homodyne detector arrays that could help detect anomalous aerospace platforms using engineered spacetime propulsion.
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Figure 1. Illustration of a Squeezed State of Light. (courtesy of Lisa Burnett)
Negative {Sub-Vacuum) Energy in the Casimir Effect
The Casimir effect originates from the quantum electromagnetic vacuum ZPF. It is by
far the easiest and most well known way to generate (static) negative energy in the
lab. The Casimir effect that is familiar to most people is the force that is associated
with the quantum vacuum electromagnetic ZPF [47]. This is an attractive force that
must exist between any two neutral (uncharged), parallel, flat, conducting surfaces
(e.g., metallic plates) in a vacuum. This force has been well measured and it can be
attributed to a minute imbalance in the vacuum electromagnetic ZPE density inside the
cavity between the conducting surfaces versus the vacuum electromagnetic ZPE density
in the free-space region outside of the cavity [48-50]. See Figure 2 for a schematic of
the Casimir effect.
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