Casimir-Polder interaction with Chern-Simons boundary layers

Abstract

Green functions scattering method is generalized to consider mixing of electromagnetic polarizations after reflection from the plane boundary between different media and applied to derivation of the Casimir-Polder potential in systems with Chern-Simons plane boundary layers. The method is first applied to derive the Casimir-Polder potential of an anisotropic atom in the presence of a Chern-Simons plane boundary layer on a dielectric half-space. Then a general result for the Casimir-Polder potential of an anisotropic atom between two dielectric half-spaces with Chern-Simons plane parallel boundary layers is derived. The Casimir-Polder potential of an anisotropic atom between two Chern-Simons plane parallel layers in vacuum is expressed through special functions. Novel P-odd three-body vacuum effects are discovered and analyzed in the system of two Chern-Simons plane parallel layers and a neutral atom in its ground state between the layers. Remarkably, P-odd three-body vacuum effects arising due to 180 degree rotation of one of the Chern-Simons layers can be verified in experiments with neutral atoms having QED dipole interaction with an electromagnetic field.

arXiv comment31 pages, 4 figures

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