Contactless friction


red ball Friction at finite temperature, for stationary (time invariant) moving states:

yellow ball "Shearing the vacuum - quantum friction," J.B. Pendry, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 9, 10301 (1997).

yellow ball "Near-field radiative heat transfer and non-contact friction," Volokitin & Persson, Rev. Mod. Phys. 79, 1291 (2007).

red ball Friction at zero temperature, for accelerating bodies in vacuum, with accompanied emitted radiation.

yellow ball "Quantum theory of the EM Field in a Variable-Length 1d cavity," G.T. Moore, J. Math. Phys. 11, 2679 (1970)

yellow ball "Radiation from a moving mirror in 2d space-time," Fulling & Davies, Proc.R.Soc, Ser. A 348, 393 (1976).

red ballYakov Zel'dovich,  "Generation of waves by a rotating body," JETP Lett. 14, 180 (1971), superradiant amplification

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yellow ballConsider waves of frequency   and quantized angular momentum   impinging on object rotation with frequency 

External reference frame variation of the fields:             

Object reference frame variation of the fields:         

  If and  have opposite signs:

 greenarrow  Amplitude of (classical) scattered wave exceeds incoming wave (Super-radiance).

 greenarrow  Conjectured (quantum) spontaneous emission with no incoming wave.

yellow ball "Spontaneous emission by rotating objects: A scattering approach," Maghrebi, Jaffe & MK, PRL108, 230403 (2012). 

greenarrowNumber of photons in a mode of frequency and angular momentum  ,

generated by object rotating with angular velocity   is:

        

greenarrowE.g., net power for a rotating cylinder:   

yellow ball Experimental verification of superradiance:

"Amplification of EM waves by a rotating body, M.C. Braidotti et al, Nature Communications 15:5453 1-6 (2024)

yellow ball Future application?