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View SchemaQuantum radiation in external background fields
| Authors | Ralf Schützhold, Guenter Plunien, Gerhard Soff |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9801035 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9801035 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.1783 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev. A58 (1998) 1783 |
Abstract
A canonical formalism is presented which allows for investigations of quantum radiation induced by localized, smooth disturbances of classical background fields by means of a perturbation theory approach. For massless, non-selfinteracting quantum fields at zero temperature we demonstrate that the low-energy part of the spectrum of created particles exhibits a non-thermal character. Applied to QED in varying dielectrics the response theory approach facilitates to study two distinct processes contributing to the production of photons: the squeezing effect due to space-time varying properties of the medium and of the velocity effect due to its motion. The generalization of this approach to finite temperatures as well as the relation to sonoluminescence is indicated.
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