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The effect of polarization entanglement in photon-photon scattering
Dennis Rätzel, Martin Wilkens, Ralf Menzel
It is found that the differential cross section of photon-photon scattering is a function of the degree of polarization entanglement of the two-photon state. A reduced, general exp…
Gravitational properties of light - The gravitational field of a laser pulse
Dennis Rätzel, Martin Wilkens, Ralf Menzel
The gravitational field of a laser pulse of finite lifetime, is investigated in the framework of linearized gravity. Although the effects are very small, they may be of fundamental…
The effect of entanglement in gravitational photon-photon scattering
Dennis Rätzel, Martin Wilkens, Ralf Menzel
The differential cross section for gravitational photon-photon scattering calculated in Perturbative Quantum Gravity is shown to depend on the degree of polarization entanglement o…
Heating of trapped particles close to surfaces - Blackbody and beyond
C. Henkel, M. Wilkens
We discuss heating and decoherence in traps for ions and neutral particles close to metallic surfaces. We focus on simple trap geometries and compute noise spectra of thermally exc…
Stochastic Wave-function Simulation of Two-time Correlation Functions
Timo Felbinger, Martin Wilkens
We propose an optimized algorithm for the numerical simulation of two-time correlation functions by means of stochastic wave functions. As a first application, we investigate the t…
Heating of trapped atoms near thermal surfaces
Carsten Henkel, Martin Wilkens
We study the electromagnetic coupling and concomitant heating of a particle in a miniaturized trap close to a solid surface. Two dominant heating mechanisms are identified: proximi…