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The Mechanical Response of Vacuum

Abstract:
A path integral formulation is developed for the dynamic Casimir effect. It allows us to study arbitrary deformations in space and time of the perfectly reflecting (conducting) boundaries of a cavity. The mechanical response of the intervening vacuum is calculated to linear order in the frequency-wavevector plane. For a single corrugated plate we find a correction to mass at low frequencies, and an effective shear viscosity at high frequencies; both anisotropic. For two plates there is resonant dissipation for all frequencies greater than the lowest optical mode of the cavity.
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.3421

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Theoretical Physics
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Phys.Rev.Lett. More from this journal
Volume:
78
Issue:
18
Pages:
3421-3425
Publication date:
1997-01-03
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EISSN:
1079-7114
ISSN:
0031-9007

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pubs:162310
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uuid:e53c8fd2-aca6-4b76-a207-6e6431985706
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pubs:162310
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162310
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2012-12-19

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