title: Resonant cavity photon creation via the dynamical Casimir effect.
abstract: Motivated by a recent proposal for an experimental verification of the dynamical Casimir effect, the macroscopic electromagnetic field within a perfect cavity containing a thin slab with a time-dependent dielectric permittivity is quantized in terms of the dual potentials. For the resonance case, the number of photons created out of the vacuum due to the dynamical Casimir effect is calculated for both polarizations. It turns out that only TM modes can be excited efficiently.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Uhlmann
authors.forename: Günter
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Plunien
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schützhold
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Soff