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Electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations and topologically induced motion of a charged particle
We show that nontrivial topologies of the spatial section of Minkowski spaceātime allow for motion of a charged particle under quantum vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. This is a potentially observable effect of these fluctuations. We derive the mean squared velocity dispersion when the charged particle lies in Minkowski ā¦