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Slicing the vacuum: New accelerating mirror solutions of the dynamical Casimir effect

Journal Article · · Physical Review D
 [1];  [2]
  1. Nazarbayev Univ., Astana (Kazakhstan). Physics Dept. School of Science and Technology. Energetic Cosmos Lab.; DOE/OSTI
  2. Nazarbayev Univ., Astana (Kazakhstan). Energetic Cosmos Lab.; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Radiation from accelerating mirrors in a Minkowski spacetime provides insights into the nature of horizons, black holes, and entanglement entropy. We introduce new, simple, symmetric and analytic moving mirror solutions and study their particle, energy, and entropy production. This includes an asymptotically static case with finite emission that is the black hole analog of complete evaporation. The total energy, total entropy, total particles, and spectrum are the same on both sides of the mirror. We also study its asymptotically inertial, drifting analog (which gives a black hole remnant) to explore differences in finite and infinite production.

Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0007867; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1541149
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 96; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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