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Article Dans Une Revue Physics Letters A Année : 1993

Friction and inertia for a mirror in a thermal field

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The force experienced by a mirror moving in vacuum vanishes in the case of uniform velocity or uniform acceleration, as a consequence of spatial symmetries of vacuum. These symmetries do not subsist in a thermal field. We give a general expression of the corresponding viscosity coefficient valid at any temperature and for any reflectivity function. We show that the computed motional force also contains a non vanishing inertial term. The associated mass correction goes to zero in the limiting cases of perfect reflection or of zero temperature.

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hal-00002467 , version 1 (05-08-2004)

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Marc-Thierry Jaekel, Serge Reynaud. Friction and inertia for a mirror in a thermal field. Physics Letters A, 1993, 172, pp.319-324. ⟨hal-00002467⟩
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