Creation of photons in an oscillating cavity with two moving mirrors

1998/10/29 by Diego A. R. Dalvit, Francisco D. Mazzitelli · 3 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies #hep-th #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.59.3049

published as Phys.Rev. A59 (1999) 3049-3059 · LaTex file, 17 pages, 3 figures, uses epsf.sty

arxiv created 1998/10/29 · openalex publication_date 1999/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We study the creation of photons in a one-dimensional oscillating cavity with two perfectly conducting moving walls. By means of a conformal transformation, we derive a set of generalized Moore's equations whose solution contains the whole information of the radiation field within the cavity. For the case of resonant oscillations we solve these equations using a renormalization-group procedure that appropriately deals with the secular behavior present in a naive perturbative approach. We study the time evolution of the energy density profile and of the number of created photons inside the cavity.

Citations

• Motion Induced Radiation from a Vibrating Cavity
• The Renormalization Group and Singular Perturbations: Multiple-Scales, Boundary Layers and Reductive Perturbation Theory

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