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The Hopfield model revisited: Covariance and Quantization
F. Belgiorno, S. L. Cacciatori, F. Dalla Piazza
There are several possible applications of quantum electrodynamics in dielectric media which require a quantum description for the electromagnetic field interacting with matter fie…
Perturbative photon production in a dispersive medium
Francesco Belgiorno, Sergio Luigi Cacciatori, Francesco Dalla Piazza
We investigate photon pair-creation in a dispersive dielectric medium induced by the presence of a spacetime varying dielectric constant. Our aim is to examine the possibility to o…
Emission of correlated photon pairs from superluminal perturbations in dispersive media
Francesco Dalla Piazza, Francesco Belgiorno, Sergio Luigi Cacciatori +1
We develop a perturbative theory that describes a superluminal refractive perturbation propagating in a dispersive medium and the subsequent excitation of the quantum vacuum zero-p…
Dielectric black holes induced by a refractive index perturbation and the Hawking effect
F. Belgiorno, S. L. Cacciatori, G. Ortenzi +3
We consider a 4D model for photon production induced by a %superluminal refractive index perturbation in a dielectric medium. We show that, in this model, we can infer the presence…
Quantum radiation from superluminal refractive index perturbations
F. Belgiorno, S. L. Cacciatori, G. Ortenzi +2
We analyze in detail photon production induced by a superluminal refractive index perturbation in realistic experimental operating conditions. The interaction between the refractiv…
Sonoluminescence as a QED vacuum effect. II: Finite Volume Effects
Stefano Liberati, Matt Visser, Francesco Belgiorno +1
In a companion paper [quant-ph/9904013] we have investigated several variations of Schwinger's proposed mechanism for sonoluminescence. We demonstrated that any realistic version o…