Spontaneous Emission by Rotating Objects: A Scattering Approach

We study the quantum electrodynamics vacuum in the presence of a body rotating along its axis of symmetry and show that the object spontaneously emits energy if it is lossy. The radiated power is expressed as a general trace formula solely in terms of the scattering matrix, making an explicit connec...

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Main Authors: Jaffe, Robert L., Kardar, Mehran, Maghrebi, Mohammad F.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72457
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0262-3645
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-5912