Y. Guo and Z. Jacob, “Giant nonequilibrium vacuum friction: Role of singular evanescent wave resonances in moving media”, Journal of Optics, vol. 16, no. 11, 2014.
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Abstract
We recently reported on the existence of a singular resonance in moving media which arises due to perfect amplitude and phase balance of evanescent waves. We show here that the nonequilibrium vacuum friction (lateral Casimir-Lifshitz force) between moving plates separated by a finite gap is fundamentally dominated by this resonance. Our result is robust to losses and dispersion as well as polarization mixing which occurs in the relativistic limit.