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Tidal and nonequilibrium Casimir effects in free fall

Wilson, Justin H. and Sorge, Francesco and Fulling, Stephen A. (2020) Tidal and nonequilibrium Casimir effects in free fall. Physical Review D, 101 (6). Art. No. 065007. ISSN 2470-0010. doi:10.1103/physrevd.101.065007. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200316-150843290

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Abstract

In this work, we consider a Casimir apparatus that is put into free fall (e.g., falling into a black hole). Working in 1 + 1D, we find that two main effects occur: First, the Casimir energy density experiences a tidal effect where negative energy is pushed toward the plates and the resulting force experienced by the plates is increased. Second, the process of falling is inherently nonequilibrium and we treat it as such, demonstrating that the Casimir energy density moves back and forth between the plates after being “dropped,” with the force modulating in synchrony. In this way, the Casimir energy behaves as a classical liquid might, putting (negative) pressure on the walls as it moves about in its container. In particular, we consider this in the context of a black hole and the multiple vacua that can be achieved outside of the apparatus.


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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.065007DOIArticle
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04492arXivDiscussion Paper
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Wilson, Justin H.0000-0001-6903-0417
Sorge, Francesco0000-0001-9203-4977
Fulling, Stephen A.0000-0003-2309-5965
Additional Information:© 2020 The Author(s). Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. (Received 15 January 2020; accepted 17 February 2020; published 16 March 2020) We thank Victor Galitski for discussions that led to this work. We also thank Gil Refael and Yoni Bentov for helpful discussions. J. H. W. thanks the Air Force Office for Scientific Research for support. J. H. W. performed part of this work at the Aspen Center for Physics, which is supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. PHY-1607611.
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Issue or Number:6
DOI:10.1103/physrevd.101.065007
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