Massive scalar field theory in the presence of moving mirrors

DOI10.1142/S0217751X18501269MaRDI QIDQ4581758zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Lev Astrakhantsev, O. N. Diatlyk

Publication date 21 August 2018

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00549

zbMATH Keywords

canonical commutation relationideal mirrormoving mirrornonideal mirrorscalar massive quantum field theorytress-energy tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We study the 2D massive fields in the presence of moving mirrors. We do that for standing mirror and mirror moving with constant velocity. We calculate the modes and commutation relations of the field operator with the corresponding conjugate momentum in each case. We find that in case of the ideal mirror, which reflects modes with all momenta equally well, the commutation relations do not have their canonical form. However, in the case of non-ideal mirror, which is transparent for the modes with high enough momenta, the commutation relations of the field operator and its conjugate momentum have their canonical form. Then we calculate the free Hamiltonian and the expectation value of the stress-energy tensor in all the listed situations. In the presence of moving mirrors the diagonal form in terms of the creation and annihilation operators has the operator that performs translations along the mirror's world line rather than the one which does translations along the time-line. For the massive fields in the presence of a mirror moving with constant velocity the expectation value of the stress-energy tensor has a non-diagonal contribution which decays with the distance from the mirror.

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