A novel experimental approach for the detection of the dynamical Casimir effect
By C. Braggio, G. Bressi, G. Carugno, C. Noce, G. Galeazzi, A. Lombardi, A. Palmieri, G. Ruoso, D. Zanello. 2004
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In order to observe the Casimir radiation we propose a new experimental scheme with no mechanically moving mirror. In fact we estimate that the power required for a sustained mechanical vibration would be beyond present experimental possibilities. Our apparatus consists of a superconducting electromagnetic resonant cavity with a wall covered by a semiconductor layer whose reflectivity is driven by a laser at gigahertz frequencies. The semiconductor thus acts as a moving mirror. Preliminary laboratory tests showed that a semiconductor can indeed reflect microwaves as efficiently as a conductor. In this paper we present the complete scheme that we intend to set up for the detection of the Casimir radiation.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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- Colloquium: Stimulating uncertainty: Amplifying the quantum vacuum with superconducting circuits (2011, background): “The DCE is therefore difficult to observe in experiments using massive mirrors (Braggio et al., 2005), since such objects cannot be accelerated to relativistic velocities in practice, and therefore produce photons only at very small rates.”