Vacuum fluctuations, accelerated motion and conformal frames
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Radiation from a mirror moving in vacuum electromagnetic fields is shown to vanish in the case of a uniformly accelerated motion. Such motions are related to conformal coordinate transformations, which preserve correlation functions characteristic of vacuum fluctuations. As a result, vacuum fluctuations remain invariant under reflection upon a uniformly accelerated mirror, which therefore does not radiate and experiences no radiation reaction force. Mechanical effects of vacuum fluctuations thus exhibit an invariance with respect to uniformly accelerated motions.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9710047,
title = {Vacuum fluctuations, accelerated motion and conformal frames},
author = {Marc-Thierry Jaekel and Serge Reynaud},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9710047},
year = {2007}
}
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7 pages