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On the base of symplectic quantum tomogram we define a probability distribution on the plane. The dual map transfers all observables which are polynomials of the position and momentum operators to the set of polynomials of two variables. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Grigori G. Amosov , Andrey I. Dnestryan

Whether monochromatic, pulsed, or even constant and crossed, the field used to describe the interaction of charged fermions with an intense laser beam is mainly assumed to be of plane-wave form. We consider a simple extension to plane-wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-19 B. King

Casimir-Polder interactions between an atom and a macroscopic body are typically regarded as due to the exchange of virtual photons. This is strictly true only at zero temperature. At finite temperature, real-photon exchange can provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-16 Sofia Ribeiro , Stefan Y. Buhmann , Stefan Scheel

We report perfect two photon quantum interference with near-unity visibility in a resonant tunneling plasmonic structure in folded Kretschmann geometry. This is despite absorption-induced loss of unitarity in plasmonic systems. The effect…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-01 S. Dutta Gupta , G. S. Agarwal

The Casimir effect for spherical geometry is calculated using generalized Thermofield Dynamics for the case of scalar field. Casimir force and Casimir pressure are presented. It is found that for high temperatures the Casimir force does…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-03-25 D. U. Matrasulov , Kh. T. Butanov , Kh. Yu. Rakhimov , F. C. Khanna , A. E. Santana

In quantum optics it is usual to describe the basic energy quanta of the electromagnetic (EM) field, photons, in terms of monochromatic waves which have a definite energy and momentum, and satisfy bosonic commutation relations. Taking this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Daniel R. E. Hodgson

We discuss the quantization of sound waves in a fluid with a linear dispersion relation and calculate the quantum density fluctuations of the fluid in several cases. These include a fluid in its ground state. In this case, we discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. H. Ford , N. F. Svaiter

In this paper we discuss in detail the interface between Classical Electrodynamics and Quantum Theory, which shows up as well known unphysical phenomena at the Compton scale in both the theories and argue that the photon of the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B G Sidharth

The Phononic Casimir effect between planar objects is investigated by deriving a formalism from the quantum partition function of the system following multiscattering approach. This fluctuation-induced coupling is mediated by phonons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Dai-Nam Le , Lilia M. Woods

Different non-equilibrium situations have recently been considered when studying the thermal Casimir--Polder interaction with a body. We show that the Keldysh Green function method provides a very general common framework for such studies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Simen Å. Ellingsen , Yury Sherkunov , Stefan Y. Buhmann , Stefan Scheel

In this series of papers we aim to provide a mathematically comprehensive framework to the Hamiltonian pictures of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes. Our final goal is to study the kinematics and the dynamics of the theory from the…

Quantum theory stipulates that if two particles are identical in all physical aspects, the allowed states of the system are either symmetric or antisymmetric with respect to permutations of the particle labels. Experimentally, the symmetry…

It is argued that spectral features of quantal systems with random interactions can be given a geometric interpretation. This conjecture is investigated in the context of two simple models: a system of randomly interacting d bosons and one…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Chau Huu-Tai , A. Frank , N. A. Smirnova , P. Van Isacker

We present a new approach to the Helmholtz spectrum for arbitrarily shaped boundaries and general boundary conditions. We derive the boundary induced change of the density of states in terms of the free Green's function from which we obtain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rauno Buescher , Thorsten Emig

The Casimir effect, which predicts the emergence of an attractive force between two parallel, highly reflecting plates in vacuum, plays a vital role in various fields of physics, from quantum field theory and cosmology to nanophotonics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Daniel Hodgson , Christopher Burgess , M. Basil Altaie , Almut Beige , Robert Purdy

We calculate the Casimir force or dispersive van der Waals force between a spherical nanoparticle and a planar substrate, both with arbitrary dielectric properties. We show that the force between a sphere and a plane can be calculated…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Cecilia Noguez , C. Roman-Velazquez

The Casimir force between parallel plates of arbitrary kind is shown to be simply related to the plates transmission and reflection coefficient. A trivial application of this general relation leads to the known Lifshitz force between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Kenneth

The phase space structure of certain quantum states reveals structure on a scale that is small compared to the Planck area. Using an analog between the wavefunction of a single photon and the electric field of a classical ultrashort optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dane R. Austin , Tobias Witting , Ian A. Walmsley

The Bialynicki-Birula-Sipe photon wave function formalism is extended to include the interaction between photons and continuous non-absorptive media. When the second quantization of this formalism is introduced, a new way of describing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Pablo L. Saldanha , C. H. Monken

A path integral formulation is used to study the fluctuation-induced interactions between manifolds of arbitrary shape at large separations. It is shown that the form of the interactions crucially depends on the choice of the boundary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ramin Golestanian