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. (Contributor), Kardar, Mehran (Contributor), Maghrebi, Mohammad F (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2012-08-30T14:50:08Z.
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520 |a 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 connection to the conjecture of Zel'dovich [ JETP Lett. 180 14 (1971)] on rotating objects. We further show that a rotating body drags along nearby objects while making them spin parallel to its own rotation axis. 
520 |a United States. Dept. of Energy (agreement no. DF-FC02-94ER40818) 
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