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Moving mirrors make light from nothing

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Researchers claim to have produced sought-after quantum effect.

A team of physicists is claiming to have coaxed sparks from the vacuum of empty space1. If verified, the finding would be one of the most unusual experimental proofs of quantum mechanics in recent years and "a significant milestone", says John Pendry, a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London who was not involved in the study.

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  1. Wilson, C. M. et al. Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4714 (2010).

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Brumfiel, G. Moving mirrors make light from nothing. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.346

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