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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…

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

We calculate the number of photons produced by the parametric resonance in a cavity with vibrating walls. We consider the case that the frequency of vibrating wall is $n \omega_1 (n=1,2,3,...)$ which is a generalization of other works…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jeong-Young Ji , Hyun-Hee Jung , Jong-Woong Park , Kwang-Sup Soh

We show that the physics underlying the dynamical Casimir effect may generate multipartite quantum correlations. To achieve it, we propose a circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) scenario involving superconducting quantum interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. Felicetti , M. Sanz , L. Lamata , G. Romero , G. Johansson , P. Delsing , E. Solano

The interaction between the quantum vacuum and time-dependent boundaries can produce particles via the dynamical Casimir effect. It is known that, for asymmetric Casimir systems, there is an imbalance in the particle production on either…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Matthew J. Gorban , William D. Julius , Ramesh Radhakrishnan , Gerald B. Cleaver

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

I consider the quantum electromagnetic field in a coaxial cylindrical waveguide, such that the outer cylindrical surface has a time-dependent radius. The field propagates parallel to the axis, inside the annular region between the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. A. Maia Neto

We present an analytical and numerical analysis of the particle creation in an optomechanical cavity in parametric resonance. We treat both the electromagnetic field and the mirror as quantum degrees of freedom and study the dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Nicolás F. Del Grosso , Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

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

We study photon creation in a cavity with two perfectly conducting moving mirrors. We derive the dynamic equations of the modes and study different situations concerning various movements of the walls, such as translational or breathing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Paula I. Villar , Alejandro Soba , Fernando C. Lombardo

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 Casimir effect is a quantum phenomenon induced by the zero-point energy of relativistic fields confined in a finite-size system. This effect for photon fields has been studied for a long time, while the realization of counterparts for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki

Eigenmodes of electromagnetic field with perfectly conducting or infinitely permeable conditions on the boundary of a D-dimensional spherically symmetric cavity is derived explicitly. It is shown that there are (D-2) polarizations for TE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 L. P. Teo

We study novel contributions to the partition function of the Maxwell system defined on a small compact manifold ${\mathbb{M}}$ with nontrivial mappings $\pi_1[U(1)]\cong\mathbb{Z}$. These contributions cannot be described in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-29 Yuan Yao , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

Both real and virtual photons can be involved in light-matter interactions. A famous example of the observable implications of virtual photons -- vacuum fluctuations of the quantum electromagnetic field -- is the Casimir effect. Since…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , George Hanson , Francesco Monticone

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

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 2008-11-26 Ramin Golestanian , Mehran Kardar

We theoretically consider an ensemble of quantum dimers placed inside an optical cavity. We predict two effects: first, an exchange of angular momentum between the dimers mediated by the emission and re-absorption of the cavity photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Denis Ilin , I. V. Tokatly , Ivan Iorsh

The Casimir energy or stress due to modes in a D-dimensional volume subject to TM (mixed) boundary conditions on a bounding spherical surface is calculated. Both interior and exterior modes are included. Together with earlier results found…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Kimball A. Milton

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