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Cosmological Particle Creation and Dynamical Casimir Effect

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We compute particle creation for a real massive scalar field conformally coupled to a spatially closed Robertson–Walker space-time background, with time-dependent scale factor. This is a dynamical Casimir effect with moving boundaries.

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Setare, M.R. Cosmological Particle Creation and Dynamical Casimir Effect. International Journal of Theoretical Physics 43, 2237–2242 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:IJTP.0000049022.58541.34

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