Nonequilibrium thermal Casimir-Polder forces
Quantum Physics
2010-01-04 v2
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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@article{arxiv.0811.4307,
title = {Nonequilibrium thermal Casimir-Polder forces},
author = {Stefan Yoshi Buhmann and Stefan Scheel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.4307},
year = {2010}
}
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