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We investigate the Casimir effect for a massless scalar field confined between two parallel semitransparent mirrors in a vacuum modified by spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. Using Green's function techniques and a point-splitting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Román Linares , C. A. Escobar , A. Martín-Ruiz , E. Plácido

The dynamical Casimir effect is an intriguing phenomenon in which photons are generated from vacuum due to a non-adiabatic change in some boundary conditions. In particular, it connects the motion of an accelerated mechanical mirror to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-06 Mikel Sanz , Witlef Wieczorek , Simon Gröblacher , Enrique Solano

The dynamical Casimir effect for a massless scalar field in 1+1-dimensions is studied numerically by solving a system of coupled first-order differential equations. The number of scalar particles created from vacuum is given by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcus Ruser

In this work we consider the dynamical Casimir effect for a massless scalar field -- under Dirichlet boundary conditions -- between two concentric spherical shells. We obtain a general expression for the average number of particle creation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Pascoal , L. C. Céleri , S. S. Mizrahi , M. H. Y. Moussa

The dynamical Casimir effect is the generation of pairs of real particles or photons from the vacuum as a result of a non-adiabatic change of a system parameter or boundary condition. As opposed to standard parametric amplification where…

Production of scalar particles by a relativistic, semi-transparent mirror in 1+3D Minkowski spacetime based on the Barton-Calogeracos (BC) action is investigated. The corresponding Bogoliubov coefficients are derived for a mirror with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Kuan-Nan Lin , Chih-En Chou , Pisin Chen

We adopt an open quantum system approach to study the effects of the back-reaction from a quantum field onto the dynamics of a moving mirror. We describe the coupling between the mirror and the field by using a microscopic model from which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Salvatore Butera

We consider the quantum radiation from a partially reflecting moving mirror for the massless scalar field in 1+1 Minkowski space. Partial reflectivity is achieved by localizing a delta-type potential at the mirror's position. The radiated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Nistor Nicolaevici

We address the question of radiation emission from both perfect and dispersive mirrors following prescribed relativistic trajectories. The trajectories considered are asymptotically inertial: the mirror starts from rest and eventually…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 A Calogeracos

The Casimir force can be understood as resulting from the radiation pressure exerted by the vacuum fluctuations reflected by boundaries. We extend this local formulation to the case of partially transmitting boundaries by introducing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

Several nontrivial phenomena emerge when a quantum field is subjected to dynamical perturbations, with prominent examples including the Hawking and Unruh effects, as well as the dynamical Casimir effect. In this work, we compute the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Gustavo de Oliveira , Thiago Henrique Moreira , Lucas Chibebe Céleri

Cavities with periodically oscillating mirrors have been predicted to excite photon pairs out of the quantum vacuum in a process known as the Dynamical Casimir effect. Here we propose and analyse an experimental layout that can provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniele Faccio , Iacopo Carusotto

In this paper we analyze the action of the gravitational field on the dynamical Casimir effect. We consider a massless scalar field confined in a cuboid cavity placed in a gravitational field described by a static and diagonal metric. With…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. C. Céleri , F. Pascoal , M. H. Y. Moussa

The creation of massless scalar particles from the quantum vacuum by spherical shell with time varying radius is studied. In the general case of motion the equations are derived for the instantaneous basis expansion coefficients. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. Setare , A. A. Saharian

A Hamiltonian approach is introduced in order to address some severe problems associated with the physical description of the dynamical Casimir effect at all times. For simplicity, the case of a neutral scalar field in a one-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Jaume Haro , Emilio Elizalde

We analyze the thermodynamic Casimir effect occurring in a gas of non-interacting bosons confined by two parallel walls with a strongly anisotropic dispersion inherited from an underlying lattice. In the direction perpendicular to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-01 Marek Napiórkowski , Pawel Jakubczyk

We present an approach to studying the Casimir effects by means of the effective theory. An essential point of our approach is replacing the mirror separation into the size of space S^1 in the adiabatic approximation. It is natural to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Yukinori Nagatani , Kei Shigetomi

We demonstrate that the Unruh-DeWitt harmonic-oscillator detectors in (1+1) dimensions derivative-coupled with a massless scalar field can mimic the atom mirrors in free space. Without introducing the Dirichlet boundary condition to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-30 Shih-Yuin Lin

We compute the effect of quantum mechanical backreaction on the spectrum of radiation in a dynamical moving mirror model, mimicking the effect of a gravitational collapse geometry. Our method is based on the use of a combined WKB and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Niels Tuning , Herman Verlinde

Defined by Bogoliubov coefficients the spectra of pairs of Bose (Fermi) massless quanta, emitted by point mirror in 1+1-space, coincide up to multiplier $e^2/ \hbar c$ with the spectra of photons (scalar quanta), emitted by point electric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Ritus