Decoherence effects of motion-induced radiation
arXiv:quant-ph/0103083
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.
9 pages. To be published in the Proceedings of the Conference on Quantum Optics I, held in Santiago, Chile, August 2000 (Springer-Verlag)