Decoherence effects of motion-induced radiation
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The radiation pressure coupling with vacuum fluctuations gives rise to energy damping and decoherence of an oscillating particle. Both effects result from the emission of pairs of photons, a quantum effect related to the fluctuations of the Casimir force. We discuss different alternative methods for the computation of the decoherence time scale. We take the example of a spherical perfectly-reflecting particle, and consider the zero and high temperature limits. We also present short general reviews on decoherence and dynamical Casimir effect.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0103083,
title = {Decoherence effects of motion-induced radiation},
author = {Paulo A. Maia Neto and Diego A. R. Dalvit},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0103083},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
9 pages. To be published in the Proceedings of the Conference on Quantum Optics I, held in Santiago, Chile, August 2000 (Springer-Verlag)