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Fluctuations of the electromagnetic field produced by quantized matter in external electric field are investigated. A general expression for the power spectrum of fluctuations is derived within the long-range expansion. It is found that in…

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We study the 2D massive fields in the presence of moving mirrors. We do that for standing mirror and mirror moving with constant velocity. We calculate the modes and commutation relations of the field operator with the corresponding…

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Optical cavities with moving mirrors provide a versatile platform for exploring radiation-matter interactions and optically mediated mechanical effects, whose control has wide technological implications. However, capturing the coupled…

The second quantization of a real massless scalar field in the presence of a material medium described by a Drude-like susceptibility is here examined in a 1+1 dimensional model. The modified vacuum fluctuations of this field imprint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-20 C. C. H. Ribeiro , V. A. De Lorenci

We analyze the possibility of measuring the state of a movable mirror by using its interaction with a quantum field. We show that measuring the field quadratures allows to reconstruct the characteristic function corresponding to the mirror…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 B. M. Rodriguez , H. Moya-Cessa

Closed formulas are derived for the field in the focal region of a diffraction limited lens, such that the electric field component in a given direction at the focal point is larger than that of all other focused fields with the same power…

Optics · Physics 2008-12-26 H. P. Urbach S. F. Pereira

We consider a system composed of a mobile slab and the electromagnetic field. We assume that the slab is made of a material that has the following properties when it is at rest: it is linear, isotropic, non-magnetizable, and ohmic with zero…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Luis Octavio Castaños , Ricardo Weder

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 investigate the Quantum-Electro-Dynamic properties of an atomic electron close to the focus of a spherical mirror. We first show that the spontaneous emission and excited state level shift of the atom can be fully suppressed with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Hétet , L. Slodicka , A. Glaetzle , M. Hennrich , R. Blatt

We consider mirrors of the spherical shape, that can expand or contract. Due to the excitation of the vacuum around, some spherical waves radiated from vibrating mirrors are encountered. Using experience from well-known literature on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Hadasz , M. Sadzikowski , P. Wegrzyn

We study relativistically expanding electromagnetic fields of cylindrical geometry. The fields emerge from the side surface of a cylinder and are invariant under translations parallel to the axis of the cylinder. The expansion velocity is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 K. N. Gourgouliatos

We consider vacuum polarization effect of a conformally coupled massless scalar field in the background produced by an idealized straight cosmic string. Using previous criterion we show the calculation of back reaction of the field to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Chung-I Kuo

We consider the amplification in strong electric (magnetic) fields that are uniform along the direction of the electron motion and are not uniform in the transverse direction. It is shown that in such a system the gain is increased compared…

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A renewed experimental interest in quantum vacuum fluctuations brings back the need to extend the study of electromagnetic vacuum correlations. Quantum or semi-classical models developed to understand various configurations should combine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Michael Vaz , Hervé Bercegol

We calculate the Casimir energy for scalar and gauge fields in interaction with zero-width mirrors, including quantum effects due to the matter fields inside the mirrors. We consider models where those fields are either scalar or fermionic,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

We consider the coupling of the electromagnetic vacuum field with an oscillating perfectly-reflecting mirror in the nonrelativistic approximation. As a consequence of the frequency modulation associated to the motion of the mirror, low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. P. F. Mendonca , P. A. Maia Neto , F. I. Takakura

Fractals are measurable metric sets with non-integer Hausdorff dimensions. If electric and magnetic fields are defined on fractal and do not exist outside of fractal in Euclidean space, then we can use the fractional generalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-11 Vasily E. Tarasov

We present a mirror model moving in the quantum vacuum of a massive scalar field and study its motion under infinitely fluctuating quantum vacuum stress. The model is similar to the one in \cite{PhysRevD.89.085009}, but this time there is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Qingdi Wang , William G. Unruh

The regularized vacuum fluctuation related to a conformally coupled massless scalar field defined on a space-time with dynamical horizon is computed with respect a radially moving observer in a generic flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Giovanni Acquaviva , Luca Bonetti , Luciano Vanzo , Sergio Zerbini

Radiation from a mirror moving in vacuum electromagnetic fields is shown to vanish in the case of a uniformly accelerated motion. Such motions are related to conformal coordinate transformations, which preserve correlation functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud