Schwinger's Dynamical Casimir Effect: Bulk Energy Contribution
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-11-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Schwinger's Dynamical Casimir Effect is one of several candidate explanations for sonoluminescence. Recently, several papers have claimed that Schwinger's estimate of the Casimir energy involved is grossly inaccurate. In this letter, we show that these calculations omit the crucial volume term. When the missing term is correctly included one finds full agreement with Schwinger's result for the Dynamical Casimir Effect. We have nothing new to say about sonoluminescence itself except to affirm that the Casimir effect is energetically adequate as a candidate explanation.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9609195,
title = {Schwinger's Dynamical Casimir Effect: Bulk Energy Contribution},
author = {Carl E. Carlson and Carmen Molina--Paris and Juan Perez--Mercader and Matt Visser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9609195},
year = {2010}
}
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6 pages. Uses LaTeX with RevTeX package in two-column format