Quantum radiation of uniformly accelerated spherical mirrors
Authors: Frolov V.; Singh D.
Source: Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 18, Number 15, 2001 , pp. 3025-3038(14)
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
Abstract:
We study quantum radiation generated by uniformly accelerated motion of small spherical mirrors. To obtain the Green function for a scalar massless field we use Wick's rotation. In the Euclidean domain the problem is reduced to finding an electric potential in four-dimensional flat space in the presence of a metallic toroidal boundary. The latter problem is solved by a separation of variables. After performing an inverse Wick rotation we obtain the Hadamard function in the wave-zone regime and use it to calculate the vacuum fluctuations and the vacuum expectation for the energy density flux in the wave zone.
Language: English
Document Type: Miscellaneous

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