Relativistic bands in the discrete spectrum of created particles in an oscillating cavity

TL;DR

This paper studies the relativistic bands in the discrete spectrum of particles created by the dynamical Casimir effect in a one-dimensional oscillating cavity, focusing on the relativistic effects of mirror velocity during a specific oscillation period.

Contribution

It introduces an analysis of relativistic velocity effects on particle creation spectrum in a resonant cavity with a moving mirror, excluding re-interaction effects.

Findings

Identification of relativistic bands in the particle spectrum

Analysis of particle creation as a function of relativistic mirror velocity

Exclusion of re-interaction effects during the specific oscillation period

Abstract

We investigate the dynamical Casimir effect for a one-dimensional resonant cavity, with one oscillating mirror. Specifically, we study the discrete spectrum of created particles in a region of frequencies above the oscillation frequency $\omega_0$ of the mirror. We focus our investigation on an oscillation time equal to $2L_0/c$, where $L_0$ is the initial and final length of the cavity, and $c$ is the speed of light. For this oscillation duration, a field mode, after perturbed by the moving mirror, never meets this mirror in motion again, which allows us to exclude this effect of re-interaction on the particle creation process. Then, we describe the evolution of the particle creation with frequencies above $\omega_0$ only as a function of the relativistic aspect of the mirror's velocity. In other words, we analyze the formation of relativistic bands in a discrete spectrum of created particles.