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Gustavo de Oliveira1, Thiago Henrique Moreira1, Lucas Chibebe Céleri1
1QPequi Group, Institute of Physics, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia 74690-900, Brazil.
Abstract:
Several nontrivial phenomena emerge when a quantum field is subjected to dynamical perturbations, with prominent examples including the Hawking and Unruh effects, as well as the dynamical Casimir effect. In this work, we compute the number of particles produced via the dynamical Casimir effect in an ideal cavity, where one of the mirrors is allowed to move under the influence of a gravitational wave. Assuming an oscillatory mirror motion and a plane gravitational wave, we identify the resonance conditions that lead to an exponential increase in the number of created particles through parametric amplification.
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