Nonequilibrium thermal Casimir–Polder forces

2008/11/30 by Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, S Y Buhmann, Stefan Scheel +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0031-8949/2009/t135/014013

published as Physica Scripta T 135, 014013 (2009) · 5 pages

openalex publication_date 2009/07/01 · arxiv created 2010/01/04 · arxiv updated 2010/01/07 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

We study the nonequilibrium Casimir–Polder force on an atom prepared in an incoherent superposition of internal energy eigenstates, which is placed in a magnetoelectric environment of nonuniform temperature. After solving the coupled atom–field dynamics within the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics, we derive a general expression for the thermal Casimir–Polder force.

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