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Vacuum Fluctuations and Accelerated Frames

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Coherence and Quantum Optics VII

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Quantum fields carry energy and momentum and exert radiation pressure forces upon mirrors 1. As known for a long time 2, a mirror immersed in thermal fields experiences a mean dissipative force proportional to its velocity as well as random force fluctuations. The dissipative and fluctuating forces are connected through fluctuation-dissipation relations 3, and they induce a Brownian motion for the mirror’s position. The force fluctuations 4, the dissipative motional force 5 as well as the associated random motion 6 persist for mirrors immersed in vacuum fluctuations, that is at the zero temperature limit of thermal fluctuations.

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  1. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (CNRS, ENS, UPS), 24 rue Lhomond, F75231, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Marc-Thierry Jaekel

  2. Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (UPMC, ENS, CNRS), case 74, 4 place Jussieu, F75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Serge Reynaud

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Jaekel, MT., Reynaud, S. (1996). Vacuum Fluctuations and Accelerated Frames. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9742-8_20

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