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Inertial forces and dissipation on accelerated boundaries
Fecha
2010-12Registro en:
Fosco, Cesar Daniel; Lombardo, Fernando Cesar; Mazzitelli, Francisco Diego; Inertial forces and dissipation on accelerated boundaries; American Physical Society; Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology; 82; 12; 12-2010; 125039-125046
1550-7998
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Fosco, Cesar Daniel
Lombardo, Fernando Cesar
Mazzitelli, Francisco Diego
Resumen
We study dissipative effects due to inertial forces acting on matter fields confined to accelerated boundaries in 1+1, 2+1, and 3+1 dimensions. These matter fields describe the internal degrees of freedom of "mirrors" and impose, on the surfaces where they are defined, boundary conditions on a fluctuating "vacuum" field. We construct different models, involving either scalar or Dirac matter fields coupled to a vacuum scalar field, and use effective action techniques to calculate the strength of dissipation. In the case of massless Dirac fields, the results could be used to describe the inertial forces on an accelerated graphene sheet. © 2010 The American Physical Society.