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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 analyse here the pseudo-Hermitian Dynamical Casimir effect, proposing a non-Hermitian version of the effective Law's Hamiltonian used to describe the phenomenon. We verify that the average number of created photons can be substantially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 D. Cius , F. M. Andrade , A. S. M. de Castro , M. H. Y. Moussa

The static Casimir effect concerns quantum electrodynamic induced Lamb shifts in the mode frequencies and thermal free energies of condensed matter systems. Sometimes, the condensed matter constitutes the boundaries of a vacuum region. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. N. Srivastava , A. Widom , S. Sivasubramanian , M. Pradeep Ganesh

A boundary undergoing relativistic motion can create particles from quantum vacuum fluctuations in a phenomenon known as the dynamical Casimir effect. We examine the creation of particles, and more generally the transformation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Maximilian P. E. Lock , Ivette Fuentes

Recent advances in nanotechnology and atomic physics may allow for a demonstration of the dynamical Casimir effect. An array of film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs) coherently driven at twice the resonant frequency of a high-quality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. H. Brownell , W. J. Kim , R. Onofrio

The generation of photons from the vacuum by means of the movement of a mirror is known as the dynamical Casimir effect (DCE). In general, this phenomenon is effectively described by a field with time-dependent boundary conditions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Andrés Agustí , Laura García-Álvarez , Enrique Solano , Carlos Sabín

We consider an atom interacting with a quantized electromagnetic field inside a cavity with variable parameters. The atom in the ground state located in the initially empty cavity can be excited by variation of cavity parameters. We have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. M. Fedotov , N. B. Narozhny , Yu. E. Lozovik

We present a quantum description of photon creation via dynamical Casimir effect based on the standard Hamiltonian formulation. The particle representation is constructed in the expansion of field operators fixed with the initial modes. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Toru Kawakubo , Katsuji Yamamoto

We theoretically propose and investigate a feasible experimental scheme for the realization of the dynamical Casimir effect (DCE) in a hybrid optomechanical cavity with a moving end mirror containing an interacting cigar-shaped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Ali Motazedifard , A. Dalafi , M. H. Naderi , R. Roknizadeh

Temporal modulation of the quantum vacuum through fast motion of a neutral body or fast changes of its optical properties is known to promote virtual into real photons, the so-called dynamical Casimir effect. Empowering modulation protocols…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Diego A. R. Dalvit , Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp

We show that an atom can be coupled to a mechanical oscillator via quantum vacuum fluctuations of a cavity field enabling energy transfer processes between them. In a hybrid quantum system consisting of a cavity resonator with a movable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-06 Bo Wang , Jia-Ming Hu , Vincenzo Macrì , Ze-Liang Xiang , Franco Nori

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 moving-mirror problem is microscopically formulated without invoking the external boundary conditions. The moving mirrors are described by the quantized matter field interacting with the photon field, forming dynamical cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hiroki Saito , Hiroyuki Hyuga

Quantum emitters inside optical cavities can create not only fixed photon number states but also photon number wave packets, which are states with a finite photon number distribution that oscillates in time. These states emerge when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Luca Nimmesgern , Moritz Cygorek , Doris E. Reiter , Vollrath Martin Axt

In this work, we studied photon generation due to the Dynamical Casimir Effect (DCE) in a one dimensional (1+1) double superconducting cavity. The cavity consists of two perfectly conducting mirrors and a dielectric membrane of…

An accelerating photodetector is predicted to see photons in the electromagnetic vacuum. However, the extreme accelerations required have prevented the direct experimental verification of this quantum vacuum effect. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Hui Wang , Miles Blencowe

We consider the problem of motion-induced photon creation from quantum vacuum inside closed, perfectly conducting cavities with time-dependent geometries. These include one dimensional Fabry-Perrot resonators with Dirichlet or Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. A. R. Dalvit , F. D. Mazzitelli , X. Orsi Millan

Dynamical Casimir effect (DCE) is the name assigned to the process of generating quanta from vacuum due to an accelerated motion of macroscopic neutral bodies (mirrors) or time-modulation of cavity material properties, as well as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-12 A. V. Dodonov

The phenomenon of particle creation within a resonantly vibrating lossy cavity is investigated for the example of a massless scalar field at finite temperature. Leakage is provided by insertion of a dispersive mirror into a larger ideal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Gernot Schaller , Ralf Schützhold , Günter Plunien , Gerhard Soff

The phenomenon of particle creation within an almost resonantly vibrating cavity with losses is investigated for the example of a massless scalar field at finite temperature. A leaky cavity is designed via the insertion of a dispersive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 G. Schaller , R. Schützhold , G. Plunien , G. Soff