Photon production from the vacuum close to the superradiant transition: Linking the dynamical Casimir effect to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Vacanti, G ^a   Pugnetti, S ^b   Didier, N ^b   Paternostro, M ^c   Palma, G M ^d   Fazio, R ^a,b   Vedral, V ^a,e,f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ISTITUTO NANOSCIENZE CNR   (Italy)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS PHASE TRANSITIONS; DYNAMICAL CASIMIR EFFECT; EMITTED RADIATION; KIBBLE-ZUREK MECHANISM; LOW FREQUENCY; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PHOTON PRODUCTION; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; TWO-LEVEL ATOM;

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

VACUUM;

EID: 84857546977     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.093603     Document Type: Article

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