1995/08/01 by Marc-Thierry Jaekel, M -T Jaekel, S Reynaud +1
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Acceleration #Conformal map #Electromagnetic radiation #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #Invariant (physics) #Motion (physics) #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Radiation #Reflection (computer programming) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Vacuum energy #gr-qc #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1355-5111/7/4/007
published as Quant.Semiclass.Opt. 7 (1995) 499 · 7 pages
openalex publication_date 1995/08/01 · arxiv created 1997/10/21 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
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 characteristic of vacuum fluctuations. As a result, vacuum fluctuations remain invariant under reflection upon a uniformly accelerated mirror, which therefore does not radiate and experiences no radiation reaction force. Mechanical effects of vacuum fluctuations thus exhibit an invariance with respect to uniformly accelerated motions.