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View SchemaFriction and inertia for a mirror in a thermal field
| Authors | Marc-Thierry Jaekel, Serge Reynaud |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0101081 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0101081 |
| DOI | 10.1016/0375-9601(93)90110-L |
| Journal | Physics Letters A 172 (1993) 319-324 |
Abstract
The force experienced by a mirror moving in vacuum vanishes in the case of uniform velocity or uniform acceleration, as a consequence of spatial symmetries of vacuum. These symmetries do not subsist in a thermal field. We give a general expression of the corresponding viscosity coefficient valid at any temperature and for any reflectivity function. We show that the computed motional force also contains a non vanishing inertial term. The associated mass correction goes to zero in the limiting cases of perfect reflection or of zero temperature.
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