Densidade de energia e força de radiação sobre fronteiras em movimento para estados arbitrários do campo: aplicação ao estado coerente

Abstract

In this work we consider a real massless scalar field in a two-dimensional spacetime, satisfying Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition at the instantaneous position of a moving boundary. For a relativistic law of motion, we show that Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions yield the same radiation force on a moving mirror when the initial field state is invariant under time translations. We obtain the exact formulas for the energy density of the field and the radiation force on the boundary for vacuum, coherent and squeezed state. In the nonrelativistic limit, our results coincide with those found in the literature. We also investigate the field inside an oscillating cavity. Considering Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions, we write the exact formula for the energy density inside a non-static cavity for an arbitrary initial field state. Taking as basis the Moore equation, we calculate recursively the energy density and investigate its time evolution for the coherent state.