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Shaking photons from the vacuum: acceleration radiation from vibrating atoms

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02258v1
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 18:56:46 GMT
Title: Shaking photons from the vacuum: acceleration radiation from vibrating atoms
Authors: Brian P. Dolan, Aonghus Hunter-McCabe and Jason Twamley
Abstract summary: We show that merely by shaking the atom, in simple harmonic motion, can have the same effect. We propose a circuit-QED potential implementation that yields transition rates of $sim 10-4,rm Hz$, which may be detectable experimentally.
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Abstract: Acceleration radiation - or Unruh radiation - the thermal radiation observed by an ever accelerating observer or detector, although having similarities to Hawking radiation, so far has proved extremely challenging to observe experimentally. One recent suggestion is that, in the presence of a mirror, constant acceleration of an atom in its ground state can excite the atom while at the same time cause it to emit a photon in an Unruh-type process. In this work we show that merely by shaking the atom, in simple harmonic motion for example, can have the same effect. We calculate the transition rate for this in first order perturbation theory and consider harmonic motion of the atom in the presence of a stationary mirror, or within a cavity or just in empty vacuum. For the latter we propose a circuit-QED potential implementation that yields transition rates of $\sim 10^{-4}\,{\rm Hz}$, which may be detectable experimentally.

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