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Quantum Cherenkov radiation at the relative sliding of two transparent plates

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Quantum Cherenkov radiation and quantum friction at the relative sliding of two transparent plates with the refractive index n have been studied in a fully relativistic theory. Radiation appears at velocities above the threshold value, v > v c = 2nc/(n 2 + 1). The contribution from s-polarized electromagnetic waves dominates near the threshold velocity. However, in the ultrarelativistic case (v → c), contributions from both polarizations are much larger than those in a nonrelativistic theory and a new contribution from the mixing of waves with different polarizations appears. The numerical results are supplemented by analytical calculations near the threshold velocity and the speed of light.

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  1. Peter Grünberg Institut, Forschungszentrum, Jülich, D-52425, Germany

    A. I. Volokitin & B. N. Y. Persson

  2. Samara State Technical University, ul. Molodogvardeiskaya 244, Samara, 443100, Russia

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  3. Samara State Aerospace University, Moskovskoe sh. 34, Samara, 443086, Russia

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Original Russian Text © A.I. Volokitin, B.N.Y. Persson, 2016, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Vol. 103, No. 4, pp. 245–250.

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Volokitin, A.I., Persson, B.N.Y. Quantum Cherenkov radiation at the relative sliding of two transparent plates. Jetp Lett. 103, 223–227 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364016040159

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