Motion induced excitation and electromagnetic radiation from an atom facing a thin mirror
We evaluate the probability of (de)excitation and photon emission from a neutral, moving, nonrelativistic atom, coupled to the quantum electromagnetic field and in the presence of a thin, perfectly conducting plane ("mirror"). These results extend, to a more realistic model, the ones we ha...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/217614 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/217614 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Dynamical Casimir effect Cavity QED Spontaneous emission Photon creation https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 |
| Sumario: | We evaluate the probability of (de)excitation and photon emission from a neutral, moving, nonrelativistic atom, coupled to the quantum electromagnetic field and in the presence of a thin, perfectly conducting plane ("mirror"). These results extend, to a more realistic model, the ones we had presented for a scalar model, where the would-be electron was described by a scalar variable, coupled to an (also scalar) vacuum field. The latter was subjected to either Dirichlet or Neumann conditions on a plane. In our evaluation of the spontaneous emission rate produced when the accelerated atom is initially in an excited state, we pay attention to its comparison with the somewhat opposite situation, namely, an atom at rest facing a moving mirror. |
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