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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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing

We develop an exact method for computing the Casimir energy between arbitrary compact objects, either dielectrics or perfect conductors. The energy is obtained as an interaction between multipoles, generated by quantum current fluctuations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Emig , N. Graham , R. L. Jaffe , M. Kardar

A theory is proposed for the component of the Casimir-like force that arises between bodies embedded in a macroscopic quantum damped oscillator. When the oscillator's parameters depend on the distance between the bodies, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Yu. S. Barash

We derive the lateral Casimir-Polder force on a ground state atom on top of a corrugated surface, up to first order in the corrugation amplitude. Our calculation is based on the scattering approach, which takes into account nonspecular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Diego A. R. Dalvit , Paulo A. Maia Neto , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

The Casimir-Polder (CP) effect -- the force between a neutral atom and an uncharged conducting plate in empty space -- is an intriguing consequence of quantum vacuum fluctuations. The typically attractive CP potential crosses over from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 K. Ton , G. Kestler , D. A. Steck , J. T. Barreiro

Casimir friction is analyzed for a pair of dielectric particles in relative motion. We first adopt a microscopic model for harmonically oscillating particles at finite temperature T moving non-relativistically with constant velocity. We use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Johan S. Høye , Iver Brevik

The phenomenon of local dynamical inhomogeneity of time is predicted, which implies that the course of time along the trajectory of motion of a particle in the inertial reference frames moving relative to each other depends on the state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Oleinik , Yu. C. Borimsky , Yu. D. Arepjev

The coupling between a moving ground-state atom and the quantum electromagnetic field is at the origin of several intriguing phenomena ranging from the dynamical Casimir emission of photons to Sagnac-like geometric phase shifts in atom…

We develop a dynamical approach to study the Casimir-Polder force between a initially bare molecule and a magnetodielectric body at finite temperature. Switching on the interaction between the molecule and the field at a particular time, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Pablo Barcellona , Roberto Passante , Lucia Rizzuto , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

A phenomenological model is presented based on the formation of nuclear thermodynamic system during the collision of heavy ions in the regime of intermediate and high energy regions. The formulation and the dynamic picture are determined by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mohamed Tarek Hussein , Nabila Mohamed Hassan , Naglaa El-Harby

For more than 35 years theorists have studied quantum or Casimir friction, which occurs when two smooth bodies move transversely to each other, experiencing a frictional dissipative force due to quantum electromagnetic fluctuations, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 K. A. Milton , J. S. Høye , I. Brevik

The classical dynamics of a particle that is driven by a rapidly oscillating potential (with frequency $\omega$) is studied. The motion is separated into a slow part and a fast part that oscillates around the slow part. The motion of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saar Rahav , Eli Geva , Shmuel Fishman

Vacuum polarization (or Casimir) energies can be straightforwardly computed from scattering data for static field configurations whose interactions with the fluctuating field are frequency independent. In effective theories, however,such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-08 N. Graham , M. Quandt , H. Weigel

The dynamics of time-dependent coupled oscillator model for the charged particle motion subjected to a time-dependent external magnetic field is investigated. We used canonical transformation approach for the classical treatment of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Salah Menouar , Mustapha Maamache , Jeong Ryeol Choi

A uniformly moving inclusion which locally suppresses the fluctuations of a classical thermally excited field is shown to experience a drag force which depends on the dynamics of the field. It is shown that in a number of cases the linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 V. Démery , D. S. Dean

We study cooperative phenomena in the fluctuation-induced forces between a surface and a system of neutral two-level quantum emitters prepared in a coherent collective state, showing that the total Casimir-Polder force on the emitters can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 Kanupriya Sinha , B. Prasanna Venkatesh , Pierre Meystre

We introduce a fractional Fokker-Planck equation with a temporal power-law dependence on the drift force fields. For this case, the moments of the tracer from the force-force correlation in terms of the time-dependent drift force fields are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kyungsik Kim , Y. S. Kong

The Casimir effect between metal surfaces has now been well-verified at the few-percent level experimentally. However, the temperature dependence has never been observed in the laboratory, since all experiments are conducted at room…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-28 K. A. Milton , Iver Brevik , Simen A. Ellingsen

Among the various kinds of effective forces in soft matter, the spatial range and the direction of the so-called critical Casimir force - which is generated by the enhanced thermal fluctuations close to a continuous phase transition - can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-14 Andrea Gambassi , S. Dietrich

In this paper, the finite temperature Casimir force acting on a two-dimensional Casimir piston due to electromagnetic field is computed. It was found that if mixed boundary conditions are assumed on the piston and its opposite wall, then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-19 L. P. Teo