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Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 678–681 (1999)

Sonoluminescence: Bogolubov Coefficients for the QED Vacuum of a Time-Dependent Dielectric Bubble

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Matt Visser1,*, S. Liberati2,†, F. Belgiorno3,‡, and D. W. Sciama2,4,5,§
1Physics Department, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63130-4899
2International School for Advanced Studies, Via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy
3Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
4International Center for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste, Italy
5Physics Department, Oxford University, Oxford, England

Received 8 May 1998; revised 17 May 1999; published in the issue dated 26 July 1999

We extend Schwinger's ideas regarding sonoluminescence by explicitly calculating the Bogolubov coefficients relating the QED vacuum states associated with changes in a dielectric bubble. Sudden (nonadiabatic) changes in the refractive index lead to an efficient production of real photons with a broadband spectrum, and a high-frequency cutoff that arises from the asymptotic behavior of the dielectric constant.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.678
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.678
PACS:
12.20.Ds, 77.22.Ch, 78.60.Mq

*Email address: visser@kiwi.wustl.edu

Email address: liberati@sissa.it

Email address: belgiorno@mi.infn.it

§Email address: sciama@sissa.it