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The coupling between a moving ground-state atom and the quantum electromagnetic field is at the origin of several intriguing phenomena ranging from the dynamical Casimir emission of photons to Sagnac-like geometric phase shifts in atom…

The Casimir forces on two parallel plates in conformally flat de Sitter background due to conformally coupled massless scalar field satisfying mixed boundary conditions on the plates is investigated. In the general case of mixed boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 M. R. Setare

Quantum vacuum fluctuations are a direct manifestation of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. The dynamical Casimir effect allows for the observation of these vacuum fluctuations by turning them into real, observable photons. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Nils Trautmann , Philipp Hauke

We study Casimir effect in equilibrium and non-equilibrium photon gas in the frame of quantum kinetic theory for $U(1)$ gauge field. We derive first the transport, constraint and gauge fixing equations for the photon number distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Xingyu Guo , Jiaxing Zhao , Pengfei Zhuang

We develop a general numerical method aimed at studying particle production from vacuum states in a variety of settings. As a first example we look at particle production in a simple cosmological model. We apply the same approach to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Nuno D. Antunes

We present for the first time numerical results for the particle (photon) creation rate of Dynamical Casimir effect (DCE) radiation in a resonant cylindrical microwave cavity. Based on recent experimental proposals, we model an irradiated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Wade Naylor

We theoretically study the interaction between dual cavity modes in a planar photonic microcavity structure in the optical communication wavelength range. The merging and splitting of cavity mode is analyzed with realistic microcavity…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-01 Elizabeth Noble , Rajesh V. Nair , B. N. Jagatap

We consider a real massless scalar field in 1+1 dimensions satisfying time-dependent Robin boundary condition at a static wall. This condition can simulate moving reflecting mirrors whose motions are determined by the time-dependence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-12 Hector O. Silva , C. Farina

The concept of synthetic dimensions, which has enabled the study of higher-dimensional physics on lower-dimensional physical structures, has generated significant recent interest in many branches of science ranging from ultracold-atomic…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-07 Avik Dutt , Qian Lin , Luqi Yuan , Momchil Minkov , Meng Xiao , Shanhui Fan

Different quantum states of atoms in optical lattices can be nondestructively monitored by off-resonant collective light scattering into a cavity. Angle resolved measurements of photon number and variance give information about atom-number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor B. Mekhov , Christoph Maschler , Helmut Ritsch

We consider an optical cavity enclosed by a freely moving mirror attached to a spring and we study the quantum friction effect exerted by the dynamical Casimir emission on the mechanical motion of the mirror. Observable signatures of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Salvatore Butera , Iacopo Carusotto

The interaction of compact objects with an infinitely extended mirror plane due to quantum fluctuations of a scalar or electromagnetic field that scatters off the objects is studied. The mirror plane is assumed to obey either Dirichlet or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thorsten Emig

Casimir-type forces, such as those between two neutral conducting plates, or between a sphere, atom or molecule and a plate have been widely studied and are becoming of increasing significance, for example, in nanotechnology. A key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-24 Alvaro M. Alhambra , Achim Kempf , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We obtain explicit analytical expressions for the quadrature variances and the photon distribution functions of the electromagnetic field modes excited from vacuum or thermal states due to the non-stationary Casimir effect in an ideal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. V. Dodonov , M. A. Andreata

We present an analytical and numerical analysis of the particle creation in a cavity ended with two SQUIDs, both subjected to time dependent magnetic fields. In the linear and lossless regime, the problem can be modeled by a free quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli , A. Soba , P. I. Villar

An experiment is proposed to observe the dynamical Casimir effect by means of two tandem, high Q, superconducting microwave cavities, which are separated from each other by only a very thin wall consisting of a flexible superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Raymond Y. Chiao

The Casimir effect refers to the existence of a macroscopic force between conducting plates in vacuum due to quantum fluctuations of fields. These forces play an important role, among other things, in the design of nano-scale mechanical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Dimitra Karabali

The symmetry between the creation of pairs of massless bosons or fermions by accelerated mirror in 1+1 space and the emission of single photons or scalar quanta by electric or scalar charge in 3+1 space is deepened in this paper. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-30 V. I. Ritus

A path integral formulation is developed for the dynamic Casimir effect. It allows us to study arbitrary deformations in space and time of the perfectly reflecting (conducting) boundaries of a cavity. The mechanical response of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ramin Golestanian , Mehran Kardar

After reviewing some essential features of the Casimir effect and, specifically, of its regularization by zeta function and Hadamard methods, we consider the dynamical Casimir effect (or Fulling-Davis theory), where related regularization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Emilio Elizalde