Quantum Cherenkov radiation and noncontact friction

We present a number of arguments to demonstrate that a quantum analog of the Cherenkov effect occurs when two nondispersive half spaces are in relative motion. We show that they experience friction beyond a threshold velocity which, in their center-of-mass frame, is the phase speed of light within t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Golestanian, Ramin, Kardar, Mehran, Faghfoor Maghrebi, Mohammad
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84647
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-5912