Boundary effects of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations on charged particles
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
The effects of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations with the boundary on charged particles is investigated. They may be observed via an electron interference experiment near the conducting plate, where boundary effects of vacuum fluctuations are found significant on coherence reduction of the electrons. The dynamics of the charge under the influence of quantized electromagnetic fields with a conducting plate is also studied. The corresponding stochastic equation of motion is derived in the semiclassical approximation, and the behavior of the charge's velocity fluctuations is discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0711.2942,
title = {Boundary effects of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations on charged particles},
author = {Tai-Hung Wu and Jen-Tsung Hsiang and Da-Shin Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2942},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
8 pages, presented at 8th Workshop on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT'07), Leipzig, Germany, 16-21 Sep 2007