Environment-induced heating in sonoluminescence experiments
Abstract
This paper discusses a quantum optical heating mechanism which might play an important role in sonoluminescence experiments. We suggest that this mechanism occurs during the final stages of the bubble collapse phase and accompanies the thermodynamic heating due to the compression of the bubble. More concretely, it is shown that a weak but highly inhomogeneous electric field, as it occurs naturally during rapid bubble deformations, can increase the temperature of strongly confined particles by several orders of magnitude on a nanosecond time scale [A. Kurcz et al., New J. Phys. 11, 053001 (2009)]. Our model suggests that it is possible to control sonoluminescence experiments in ionic liquids with the help of appropriately detuned laser fields.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1207.7022,
title = {Environment-induced heating in sonoluminescence experiments},
author = {Almut Beige and Antonio Capolupo and Andreas Kurcz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.7022},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Cavitation in Singapore