Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
1999-01-09
Physics
Quantum Physics
11 pages, 3 figures. To be published in Optics Communications
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0030-4018(98)00658-0
We consider the coupling of the electromagnetic vacuum field with an oscillating perfectly-reflecting mirror in the nonrelativistic approximation. As a consequence of the frequency modulation associated to the motion of the mirror, low frequency photons are generated. We calculate the photon emission rate by following a nonperturbative approach, in which the coupling between the field sidebands is taken into account. We show that the usual perturbation theory fails to account correctly for the contribution of TM-polarized vacuum fluctuations that propagate along directions nearly parallel to the plane surface of the mirror. As a result of the modification of the field eigenfunctions, the resonance frequency for photon emission is shifted from its unperturbed value.
Maia Neto Paulo A.
Mendonca J. P. F.
Takakura F. I.
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