Nonequilibrium thermal Casimir-Polder forces

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.

5 pages

References in corpus (10)

• Measurement of the Temperature Dependence of the Casimir-Polder Force
• Dispersion forces in macroscopic quantum electrodynamics
• New asymptotic behaviour of the surface-atom force out of thermal equilibrium
• Effect of the Casimir-Polder force on the collective oscillations of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate
• Thermal Casimir vs Casimir-Polder forces: Equilibrium and non-equilibrium forces
• Lifshitz-type formulas for graphene and single-wall carbon nanotubes: van der Waals and Casimir interations
• Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a cavity wall under the influence of real conditions
• Van der Waals interaction between a microparticle and a single-wall carbon nanotube
• Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a cylinder with application to nanosystems
• Selective Reflection Spectroscopy on the UV Third Resonance Line of Cs : Simultaneous Probing of a van der Waals Atom-Surface Interaction Sensitive to Far IR Couplings and of Interatomic Collisions

Cited by in corpus (5)

• Detecting the Curvature of de Sitter Universe with Two Entangled Atoms
• A Stern-Gerlach separator of chiral enantiomers based on the Casimir-Polder potential
• Energy shift and Casimir-Polder force for an atom out of thermal equilibrium near a dielectric substrate
• Casimir-Polder force for a polarizable molecule near a dielectric substrate out of thermal equilibrium
• The thermalization of a two-level atom in a planar dielectric system out of thermal equilibrium