Quantum Radiation of a Uniformly Accelerated Refractive Body
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2011-07-19 v1
Abstract
We study quantum radiation generated by an accelerated motion of a small body with a refractive index n which differes slightly from 1. To simplify calculations we consider a model with a scalar massless field. We use the perturbation expansion in a small parameter n-1 to obtain a correction to the vacuum Hadamard function for a uniformly accelerated motion of the body. We obtain the vacuum expectation for the energy density flux in the wave zone and discuss its properties.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0003107,
title = {Quantum Radiation of a Uniformly Accelerated Refractive Body},
author = {V. Frolov and D. Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0003107},
year = {2011}
}
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16 pages, 1 figure