Dynamical Casimir Effect for Scalar Fields I (Particle Creation)

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 1003-1019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaume Haro
2012 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 306-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. FARINA ◽  
HECTOR O. SILVA ◽  
ANDRESON L. C. REGO ◽  
DANILO T. ALVES

Motivated by experiments in which moving boundaries are simulated by time-dependent properties of static systems, we discuss the model of a massless scalar field submitted to a time-dependent Robin boundary condition (BC) at a static mirror in 1 + 1 dimensions. Using a perturbative approach, we compute the spectral distribution of the created particles and the total particle creation rate, considering a thermal state as the initial field state.


2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (03) ◽  
pp. 2040006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. R. Good ◽  
Eric V. Linder ◽  
Frank Wilczek

A new solution for an analytic spectrum of particle creation by an accelerating mirror (dynamical Casimir effect) is given. It is the first model to simultaneously radiate thermally and emit a finite number of particles.


2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (30) ◽  
pp. 6173-6182 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCESCO SORGE

We investigate the Dynamical Casimir Effect (DCE) in the case of a scalar field enclosed in a box which undergoes a phase of strong acceleration (a kick) during its motion. Following a general-relativistic approach, we describe the acceleration field as a time-dependent space–time metric in the frame of a comoving, noninertial observer. Assuming a nonrelativistic motion of the box, we perturbatively solve the Klein–Gordon equation for the matter field, evaluating the β-Bogolubov coefficients, related to the particle creation. We show that, after the kick, a (small) number of created quanta is found inside the box. The resulting spectrum carries, in principle, information about the details of the box acceleration phase. The present approach can serve to shed light on the close relationship between DCE and Unruh–Hawking effect.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 1269-1276 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. SETARE ◽  
A. A. SAHARIAN

We study the creation of massless scalar particles from the quantum vacuum due to the dynamical Casimir effect by spherical shell with oscillating radius. In the case of a small amplitude of the oscillation, to solve the infinite set of coupled differential equations for the instantaneous basis expansion coefficients we use the method based on the time-dependent perturbation theory of the quantum mechanics. To the first order of the amplitude we derive the expressions for the number of the created particles for both parametric resonance and non-resonance cases.


2009 ◽  
Vol 324 (10) ◽  
pp. 2057-2073 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.C. Celeri ◽  
F. Pascoal ◽  
M.A. de Ponte ◽  
M.H.Y. Moussa

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (14) ◽  
pp. 927-935 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. SETARE ◽  
A. A. SAHARIAN

The creation of massless scalar particles from the quantum vacuum by spherical shell with time varying radius is studied. In the general case of motion the equations are derived for the instantaneous basis expansion coefficients. The examples are considered when the mean number of particles can be explicitly evaluated in the adiabatic approximation.


Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Michael R. R. Good ◽  
Eric V. Linder

We study the quantum radiation of particle production by vacuum from an ultra-relativistic moving mirror (dynamical Casimir effect) solution that allows (possibly for the first time) analytically calculable time evolution of particle creation and an Airy particle spectral distribution. The reality of the beta Bogoliubov coefficients is responsible for the simplicity, and the mirror is asymptotically inertial at the speed of light, with finite energy production. We also discuss general relations regarding negative energy flux, the transformation to the 1-D Schrödinger equation, and the incompleteness of entanglement entropy.


Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Diego A. R. Dalvit ◽  
Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp

Temporal modulation of the quantum vacuum through fast motion of a neutral body or fast changes of its optical properties is known to promote virtual into real photons, the so-called dynamical Casimir effect. Empowering modulation protocols with spatial control could enable the shaping of spectral, spatial, spin, and entanglement properties of the emitted photon pairs. Space–time quantum metasurfaces have been proposed as a platform to realize this physics via modulation of their optical properties. Here, we report the mechanical analog of this phenomenon by considering systems in which the lattice structure undergoes modulation in space and in time. We develop a microscopic theory that applies both to moving mirrors with a modulated surface profile and atomic array meta-mirrors with perturbed lattice configuration. Spatiotemporal modulation enables motion-induced generation of co- and cross-polarized photon pairs that feature frequency-linear momentum entanglement as well as vortex photon pairs featuring frequency-angular momentum entanglement. The proposed space–time dynamical Casimir effect can be interpreted as induced dynamical asymmetry in the quantum vacuum.


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