Vacuum fluctuations, accelerated motion and conformal frames
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- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Quantum and Semiclassical Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B
- Vol. 7 (4) , 499-508
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1355-5111/7/4/007
Abstract
Radiation from a mirror moving in vacuum electromagnetic fields is shown to vanish in the case of a uniformly accelerated motion. Such motions are related to conformal coordinate transformations, which preserve correlation functions characteristic of vacuum fluctuations. As a result, vacuum fluctuations remain invariant under reflection upon a uniformly accelerated mirror, which therefore does not radiate and experiences no radiation reaction force. Mechanical effects of vacuum fluctuations thus exhibit an invariance with respect to uniformly accelerated motions.Keywords
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