| Tool | Effect | Page | |
| Aperiodic quantum stochastic resonance (AQSR) | Generates electrical current from nonthermal and thermal fluctuations | 65-67 | |
| Brownian motors | Biases Brownian motion of particles, often in an anisotropic medium | 58 | |
| Casimir engine | Electrical current generator designed by Pinto using a microcantilever, microlaser and Casimir force | 44-47 | |
| Casimir force | Attractive (or repulsive) force from two parallel plates about 1 micron apart | 6, 18, 50 | |
| Cavity QED | Alters atomic transition probability in small cavities | 20 | |
| Dark energy | ZPE that powers galactic acceleration, also measured in the lab | 67 | |
| Dielectric constant of surface | Affects Casimir force when illuminated by light | 45, 52, 53 | |
| Einstein-Hopf drag | Retarding force from vacuum due to motion F= -Rv | 55 | |
| Electromagnetic ZPE Converter | Dual sphere device using beat frequencies to downshift ZPE | 27-44 | |
| Femtosphere | Particle size where QM and Rutherford scattering applies | 40-44 | |
| Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem | Source+dissipation=fluctuation; Predicts and explains fundamental nature of ZPF | 11, 57 | |
| Fluctuation-driven transport | Mechanism that can convert chemical energy into motion of particles and macromolecules | 58 | |
| Focusing vacuum fluctuations | Increases energy density of ZPE and attractive Casimir force | 48-49 | |
| Fokker-Planck equation | Can apply to ferrofluid system to predict noise-driven motion of particles | 64 | |
| Langevin's equation | Like F-D theorem, helps design Brownian motors | 58, 63 | |
| Lasing without inversion (LWI) | Sustained laser output from microlasers which have long radiation cavity lifetime | 56 | |
| Magnetic field | Inhibits Casimir force | 20 | |
| Microbox geometry | Varies Casimir force from + attractive to - repulsive | 50-51 | |
| Microcantilever | Flexible membrane that displays Casimir deflection | 44, 49 | |
| Microlaser | Solid state laser 2 microns across | 46 | |
| Nonresonant ion trap | Electrfied cavity that concentrates charged particles | 44 | |
| Photo-Carnot engine | Allows extraction of work from a single thermal reservoir where radiation is the working fluid | 56 | |
| Quantum coherence | Changes relative strengths of emission and absorption in a cavity | 57 | |
| Quantum ratchet | Repeating cells that move particles with fluctuation-driven transport | 59-60 | |
| Recoil | Increases the energy of a dipole, associated with photon absorption and emission, both of which are in the same direction | 55 | |
| Rectifying thermal noise | Generates electrical current with asymmetric external potential | 64 | |
| Resonance | Can trap scattering particles into bound state | 42 | |
| Resonant fluorescence | Dramatically increases absorption when incident energy equals binding energy of target | 41 | |
| Sonoluminescence | ZPE caused light emission due to extreme temperature and pressure | 21 | |
| Spatial squeezing of vacuum | Can double photon emission from cavity by changing dimensions abruptly | 48 | |
| Temperature | Increase will broaden resonance peak | 39 | |
| Thermal fluctuations/noise | temperature-caused stochastic oscillations and vibrations | 62-63 | |
| Time-dependent refractive index | Causes part of ZPE to convert to real photons | 53 | |
| Transient fluctuation theorem | Nonzero probability for negative work for short periods of time | 61 | |
| Unruh-Davies Effect | Acceleration causes ZPE to create thermal fluctuations | 53 | |
| Upscattering | Gain of energy to incident particle up to 10 kT energy | 39 | |
| Vacuum field amplification | Increases quantum nonthermal noise with a gain medium | 67 | |
| Vacuum field perturbations | Nonabelian EM field may alter speed of light/object | 55 | |
| Vacuum polarization | Increase in local activity in the quantum vacuum near the edge of a physical charged particle | 10 |