We consider the particle creation (the Dynamical Casimir effect) in a uniformly contracting ideal one-dimensional cavity nonperturbatively. The exact expression for the energy spectrum of created particles is obtained and its dependence on parameters of the problem is discussed. Unexpectedly, the number of created particles depends on the duration of the cavity contracting nonmonotonously. This is explained by quantum interference of the events of particle creation which are taking place only at the moments of acceleration and deceleration of a boundary, while stable particle states exist (and thus no particles are created) at the time of contracting.

• Received 10 April 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.74.013806