Fifty Years of the Dynamical Casimir Effect

Abstract

This is a digest of the main achievements in the wide area, called the Dynamical Casimir Effect nowadays, for the past 50 years, with the emphasis on results obtained after 2010.

Keywords

• moving boundaries
• photon generation from vacuum
• quantum friction
• effective hamiltonians
• parametric oscillator
• atomic excitations
• nonlinear optical materials
• cavity and circuit qed
• decoherence
• entanglement