2001/03/14 by Paulo A. Maia Neto, Neto, Paulo A. Maia, Diego A. R. Dalvit +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0103083
9 pages. To be published in the Proceedings of the Conference on Quantum Optics I, held in Santiago, Chile, August 2000 (Springer-Verlag)
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The radiation pressure coupling with vacuum fluctuations gives rise to energy damping and decoherence of an oscillating particle. Both effects result from the emission of pairs of photons, a quantum effect related to the fluctuations of the Casimir force. We discuss different alternative methods for the computation of the decoherence time scale. We take the example of a spherical perfectly-reflecting particle, and consider the zero and high temperature limits. We also present short general reviews on decoherence and dynamical Casimir effect.