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View SchemaQuantum photon emission from a moving mirror in the nonperturbative regime
| Authors | J. P. F. Mendonca, P. A. Maia Neto, F. I. Takakura |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9901020 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9901020 |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0030-4018(98)00658-0 |
Abstract
We consider the coupling of the electromagnetic vacuum field with an oscillating perfectly-reflecting mirror in the nonrelativistic approximation. As a consequence of the frequency modulation associated to the motion of the mirror, low frequency photons are generated. We calculate the photon emission rate by following a nonperturbative approach, in which the coupling between the field sidebands is taken into account. We show that the usual perturbation theory fails to account correctly for the contribution of TM-polarized vacuum fluctuations that propagate along directions nearly parallel to the plane surface of the mirror. As a result of the modification of the field eigenfunctions, the resonance frequency for photon emission is shifted from its unperturbed value.
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