Dynamical Casimir effect with screened scalar fields

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02630v1
• Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 10:36:42 GMT
• Title: Dynamical Casimir effect with screened scalar fields
• Authors: Ana Lucía Báez-Camargo, Daniel Hartley, Christian Käding, Ivette Fuentes-Guridi,
• Abstract summary: We present the first analysis of the impact of a chameleon field on the dynamical Casimir effect. We show that particle production is reduced due to the presence of the chameleon field.
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• Abstract: Understanding the nature of dark energy and dark matter is one of modern physics' greatest open problems. Scalar-tensor theories with screened scalar fields like the chameleon model are among the most popular proposed solutions. In this article, we present the first analysis of the impact of a chameleon field on the dynamical Casimir effect, whose main feature is the particle production associated with a resonant condition of boundary periodic motion in cavities. For this, we employ a recently developed method to compute the evolution of confined quantum scalar fields in a globally hyperbolic spacetime by means of time-dependent Bogoliubov transformations. As a result, we show that particle production is reduced due to the presence of the chameleon field. In addition, our results for the Bogoliubov coefficients and the mean number of created particles agree with known results in the absence of a chameleon field. Our results initiate the discussion of the evolution of quantum fields on screened scalar field backgrounds.

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