Year: 1982
Type: article
Abstract: The authors present for the first time an exact treatment of the production of radiation by a mirror which accelerates along a smooth, asymptotically static trajectory in two-dimensional Minkowski space. The treatment confirms the general expectations of earlier work which was based on questionable approximations and unrealistic asymptotic behaviour.
Authors: W R Walker, P C W Davies
Institution: Newcastle University
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2076121402