Photon statistics in the dynamical Casimir effect modified by a harmonic oscillator detector

Abstract

It was predicted some time ago that the cavity dynamical Casimir effect (generation of photons from the initial vacuum state in a cavity with moving walls) might be observed if a boundary vibrates at the double frequency of some selected cavity mode. However, to register the created photons one has to couple the cavity mode with some detector. Considering the harmonic oscillator model of a detector, we analyze how different coupling regimes can affect the statistics of the created quanta.

10 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Topical Issue of Physica Scripta: Proceedings of CEWQO-2012

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