The formalism for energy changing rate of an accelerated atom coupled with electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations
arXiv:1612.01844 · doi:10.1007/s10701-016-0016-9
Abstract
The structure of the rate of variation of the atomic energy for an arbitrary stationary motion of the atom in interaction with a quantum electromagnetic field is investigated. Our main purpose is to rewrite the formalism in Ref. \cite{zz} and to deduce the general expressions of the Einstein A coefficients of an atom on an arbitrary stationary trajectory. The total rate of change of the energy and Einstein coefficients of the atom near a plate with finite temperature or acceleration are also investigated.
12pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:gr-qc/0509053, arXiv:quant-ph/0608179 by other authors