What you have is a resonant cavity, with phonons. The compression will be done by mechanic waves, coupled with EM waves. The infrared waves are 4 order of magnitude bigger than the cavity. So, you could have quite a few billion of atoms in phase due the relatively large infrared waves.
2012/7/19 Eric Walker <[email protected]> > > I take back that thought about violent collapse of the walls. Maybe the > collapse would be violent; or maybe it would be gradual, occurring as the > walls soften and current passes through as a result of superconductivity (I > was thinking DC, but it might be AC). If the collapse was gradual, you > would get a steady increase in pressure. You might also get some > interesting things happening with the frequency of the resonant light. > > Eric > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
