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We extend our previous work on the functional approach to the dynamical Casimir effect, to compute dissipative effects due to the relative motion of two flat, parallel, imperfect mirrors in vacuum. The interaction between the internal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-08 Cesar D. Fosco , Fernando C. Lombardo , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

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

We study the dynamical Casimir effect using a fully quantum-mechanical description of both the cavity field and the oscillating mirror. We do not linearize the dynamics, nor do we adopt any parametric or perturbative approximation. By…

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 present a canonical formalism facilitating investigations of the dynamical Casimir effect by means of a response theory approach. We consider a massless scalar field confined inside of an arbitaray domain $G(t)$, which undergoes small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Schützhold , G. Plunien , G. Soff

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…

A new method based on the Monte-Carlo calculation on the lattice is proposed to study the Casimir effect in the compact lattice U(1) theory with Wilson action. We have studied the standard Casimir problem with two parallel plane surfaces…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-01-15 Oleg Pavlovsky , Maxim Ulybyshev

We study a quantum model of dynamical Casimir effect in an optical cavity enclosed by a freely moving mirror attached to a harmonic spring. The quantum fluctuations of the friction force exerted by the dynamical Casimir emission onto the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Salvatore Butera , 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

Hybrid light-matter states, polaritons, are one of the central concepts in modern quantum optics and condensed matter physics. Polaritons emerge as a result of strong interaction between an optical mode and a material resonance, which is…

A remote energy transfer pathway from electronic to vibrational degrees of freedom is identified inside an infrared optical cavity under vibrational strong coupling conditions. This mechanism relies on the dynamical Casimir effect, whereby…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Tao E. Li

We calculate the Casimir energy for scalar fields in interaction with finite-width mirrors, described by nonlocal interaction terms. These terms, which include quantum effects due to the matter fields inside the mirrors, are approximated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-02 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

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

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

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 theoretically investigate the dynamical Casimir effect in a single-mode cavity endowed with a driven off-resonant mirror. We explore the dynamics of photon generation as a function of the ratio between the cavity mode and the mirror's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 R. Román-Ancheyta , I. Ramos-Prieto , A. Perez-Leija , K. Busch , R. de J. León-Montiel

We study the Dynamical Casimir Effect (DCE) for a real scalar field $\varphi$ in $d+1$ dimensions, in the presence of a mirror that imposes Dirichlet boundary conditions and undergoes time-dependent motion or deformation. Using a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 B. C. Guntsche , C. D. Fosco

We study the situation where two point like mirrors are placed in the vacuum state of a scalar field in a two-dimensional spacetime. Describing the scattering upon the mirrors by transmittivity and reflectivity functions obeying unitarity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

The Casimir effect, which predicts the emergence of an attractive force between two parallel, highly reflecting plates in vacuum, plays a vital role in various fields of physics, from quantum field theory and cosmology to nanophotonics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Daniel Hodgson , Christopher Burgess , M. Basil Altaie , Almut Beige , Robert Purdy

We investigate the dynamical Casimir effect and its detection with Rydberg atoms. The photons are created in a resonant cavity with a plasma mirror of a semiconductor slab which is irradiated by periodic laser pulses. The canonical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-28 Toru Kawakubo , Katsuji Yamamoto