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Formation energy of a waveguide as a measure of its cutoff frequency

L. A. Rivlin

Moscow Institute of Radio-Engineering, Electronics and Automation

Abstract: It turns out that the cutoff frequency of a waveguide, multiplied by Planck's constant, and the rest mass of a photon in the waveguide, multiplied by the velocity of light squared, are equal to the work performed in opposition to the radiation-pressure forces of zero-point vacuum fluctuations during the formation of the waveguide from free space.

UDC: 621.372.8

PACS: 41.20.Jb

Received: October 12, 1990
Revised: November 13, 1990

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0161.199103g.0143

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 1991, 34:3, 259–261