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We study analytically the photon generation from vacuum due to the Dynamical Casimir effect in a cavity with a two-level atom, prepared initially in an arbitrary pure state. Performing small unitary transformations we obtain closed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 A. V. Dodonov , V. V. Dodonov

We show that oscillations of a homogeneous medium with constant material coefficients produce pairs of photons. Classical analysis of an oscillating medium reveals regions of parametric resonance where the electromagnetic waves are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

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

Vacuum modes confined into an electromagnetic cavity give rise to an attractive interaction between the opposite walls. When the distance between the walls is changed non-adiabatically, virtual vacuum modes are turned into real particles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 Pasi Lähteenmäki , G. S. Paraoanu , Juha Hassel , Pertti J. Hakonen

We consider an atom in its ground state undergoing a non-relativistic oscillation in free space. The interaction with the electromagnetic quantum vacuum leads to two effects to leading order in perturbation theory. When the mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Reinaldo de Melo e Souza , François Impens , Paulo A. Maia Neto

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

When one of the parameters in the Euler-Lagrange equations of motion of a system is modulated, particles can be generated out of the quantum vacuum. This phenomenon is known as the dynamical Casimir effect, and it was recently realized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-31 P. Lähteenmäki , G. S. Paraoanu , J. Hassel , P. J. Hakonen

We study the dynamical Casimir effect in a double superconducting cavity in a circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture. Parameters in the quantum circuit are chosen in such a way the superconducting cavity can mimic a double cavity,…

Molecular quantum electrodynamics leads to photon frequency shifts and thus to changes in condensed matter free energies often called the Casimir effect. Strong quantum electrodynamic coupling between radiation and molecular motions can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Sivasubramanian , A. Widom , Y. N. Srivastava

We study the dynamical Casimir effect in the presence of a finite coherence time, which is associated with a finite quality factor of the optical cavity. We use the time refraction model, where a fixed cavity with a modulated optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. T. Mendonca , G. Brodin , M. Marklund

We investigate the effects of dynamical Casimir effect in superradiant light scattering by Bose-Einstein condensate in an optomechanical cavity. The system is studied using both classical and quantized mirror motions. The cavity frequency…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-08-13 Sonam Mahajan , Neha Aggarwal , Aranya B Bhattacherjee , ManMohan

We consider a non-spherical neutral particle spinning in free space and interacting with the electromagnetic quantum vacuum. When the rotation axis is orthogonal to the particle symmetry axis, the scattered field develops frequency…

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

We consider the problem of photon creation from vacuum inside an ideal cavity with vibrating walls in the resonance case, taking into account the interaction between the resonant field mode and a detector modeled by a quantum harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. S. M. de Castro , A. Cacheffo , V. V. Dodonov

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…

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 study the dynamical Casimir effect in an electromagnetic cavity containing a Kerr medium. We obtain approximate expressions for the time evolution operator as well as for the number operator in the Heisenberg representation. We have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 R. Román-Ancheyta , C. González-Gutiérrez , J. Récamier

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

We investigate analytically and numerically the nonstationary circuit QED setup in which $N$ independent qubits interact with a single mode of the Electromagnetic field confined in a resonator. We consider the harmonic time modulation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 E. L. S. Silva , A. V. Dodonov

We consider particle creation (the Dynamical Casimir effect) in a uniformly contracting ideal one-dimensional cavity non-perturbatively. The exact expression for the energy spectrum of created particles is obtained and its dependence on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Fedotov , Yu. E. Lozovik , N. B. Narozhny , A. N. Petrosyan