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virtual particle
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virtual particle [′vər·chə·wəl ′pard·ə·kəl]
(quantum mechanics)
virtual quantum


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This is the first device in which you get a mechanical action as a result of vacuum fluctuations," says Federico Capasso of Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs in Murray Hill.
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Polder proposed that such vacuum fluctuations would cause an observable attraction between an isolated, neutral atom and a flat, conductive plate.
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These so-called vacuum fluctuations have a discernible effect on light.
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