Peculiarities of Quantum Radiation in Three Dimensions from Moving Mirrors with High Refractive Index

Dynamical Casimir effect without boundary conditions

“…On the other hand, when the mirrors move very rapidly, quantum state of the EM field cannot adiabatically follow the instantaneous vacuum state for each position of the mirrors, resulting in the creation of photons. Such excitation of the quantum field caused by non-adiabatic change of the vacuum state [2,3,4] is referred to as the dynamical Casimir effect (DCE), and there have been numerous investigations into this subject [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31], e.g., spectral properties of created photons [5], radiation pressure on a moving mirror [6,7,8], squeezing in the radiation field [9,10], effective Hamiltonian approach [11,12,13,14], time-varying refractive index [15,16,17,18], radiation from moving dielectrics [19,…”

“…To circumvent these conceptual difficulties, the various results of the moving-mirror problem based on the boundary conditions should be examined and derived as some limiting case of more elaborate models. Several studies have been done towards this direction by considering moving matter with finite refractive index [19,20,21,22,23,24]: formulation of the problem and radiation spectrum [19], radiative reaction on the mirror [19,20], the dispersive mirror [20,21], radiation in two and three dimension [22,23], and density variation in dielectrics [24].…”

Decoherence Effects of Motion Induced Radiation

“…The dissipative force on a plane mirror was computed within the long wavelength approximation for a scalar [31] and electromagnetic [34] field models. The angular and frequency distributions of the emitted radiation were also computed for a single plane moving mirror [35], a moving dielectric half-space [36] [37] and two parallel plane mirrors [38]. Linear response theory was employed to derive the dissipative force on moving spheres [39].…”

Quantum radiation from a partially reflecting moving mirror

“…In addition, the analysis is carried out in frequency space, obscuring somewhat the trajectory dependence in coordinate space. Another direction is that of Barton et al [17]- [19] (see also Ref. [20]).…”