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View SchemaSonoluminescence: Bogolubov coefficients for the QED vacuum of a time-dependent dielectric bubble
| Authors | Matt Visser, S. Liberati, F. Belgiorno, D. W. Sciama |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9805023 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9805023 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.678 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 (1999) 678-681 |
Abstract
We extend Schwinger's ideas regarding sonoluminescence by explicitly calculating the Bogolubov coefficients relating the QED vacuum states associated with changes in a dielectric bubble. Sudden (non-adiabatic) changes in the refractive index lead to an efficient production of real photons with a broadband spectrum, and a high-frequency cutoff that arises from the asymptotic behaviour of the dielectric constant.
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