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A nonlinear phase-field model is developed to simulate corrosion damage. The motion of the electrode$-$ electrolyte interface follows the usual kinetic rate theory for chemical reactions based on the Butler-Volmer equation. The model links…

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By modeling a dielectric medium with two independent reservoirs, i.e., electric and magnetic reservoirs, the electromagnetic field is quantized in a linear dielectric medium consistently. A Hamiltonian is proposed from which using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Kheirandish , M. Amooshahi

We continue our investigation of multi-partite open quantum systems comprising layers of structure using the atom-field-medium interactions as a familiarly important example. Same as in Paper I~\cite{HH24} we consider a system of $N$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

We investigate how the combination of nonequilibrium effects and material properties impacts on the Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a surface. By addressing systems with temperature inhomogeneities and laser interactions, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-22 Nicola Bartolo , Riccardo Messina , Diego A. R. Dalvit , Francesco Intravaia

We explore the classical dynamics of two interacting rotating dipoles that are fixed in the space and exposed to an external homogeneous electric field. Kinetic energy transfer mechanisms between the dipoles are investigated varying both…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-25 Rosario González-Férez , Manuel Iñarrea , J. Pablo Salas , Peter Schmelcher

We study the effect of electron-electron interaction on a two dimensional (2D) disordered lattice. For the case of two electrons the analytical estimates are presented showing a transition from localized to delocalized states in a way…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-27 Dima L. Shepelyansky , Pil Hun Song

I revisit the problem of the interaction between two dissimilar atoms with one atom in an excited state, recently addressed by the authors of Refs.[1-3], and for which precedent approaches have given conflicting results. In the first place,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Manuel Donaire

We study the contributions of off-resonant transitions to the dynamics of a system of N multilevel atoms sharing one excitation and interacting with the quantized vector electromagnetic field. The Rotating Wave Approximation significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 Yevhen Miroshnychenko , Klaus Mølmer

Using the master equation we calculate the contribution of the excited state of a two-level atom to its interacting potential with a perfectly conducting wall at finite temperature. For low temperature, $\hbar \omega_0/k_B T = k_0…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. N. C. Mendes , C. Farina

We study the effect of the voltage bias on the ferromagnetic phase transition in a one-dimensional itinerant electron system. The applied voltage drives the system into a nonequilibrium steady state with a non-zero electric current. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. E. Feldman

The interaction of a five-level atomic system involving electromagnetically induced transparency with four light fields is investigated. Two different light-atom configurations are considered, and their efficiency in generating large…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Carlo Ottaviani , Stojan Rebic , David Vitali , Paolo Tombesi

Coulomb interactions that occur in electronic structure calculations are correlated by allowing basis function components of the interacting densities to polarize, thereby reducing the magnitude of the interaction. Exchange integrals of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Jerry L. Whitten

We formulate a general theory of the dielectric response of a lattice with a structural transition and a polarization instability due to a soft-optic mode coupled to low energy electronic excitations by the electromagnetic fields. the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 T. K. Ng , C. M. Varma

The analysis of correlation energy of the simplest first approximation of a variational method for the intrashell states of two-electron atoms is the purpose of the present work. This method allows to divide energy of atom on Coulomb and…

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We demonstrate that the static ground state atom, which interacts with a conformally coupled massless scalar field in the de Sitter invariant vacuum, can obtain a position-dependent energy-level shift and this shift could cause a…

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We study all known and as yet unknown forces between two neutral atoms, modeled as three dimensional harmonic oscillators, arising from mutual influences mediated by an electromagnetic field but not from their direct interactions. We allow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-11 Ryan Orson Behunin , Bei-Lok Hu

The present study investigates the interaction of an equidistant three-level atom and a single-mode cavity field that has been initially prepared in a generalized coherent state. The atom-field interaction is considered to be, in general,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-05 M K Tavassoly , F. Yadollahi

We have calculated the total energy of the helium atom in higher excited state. The Coulomb and exchange integrals are evaluated via spherical harmonics. The interaction of the magnetic moments of the electrons between them and also with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 Voicu Dolocan