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Dynamical Casimir photons from rotation of a nonspherical particle
Guilherme C. Matos, Lucas Bianchi, Jeremy N. Munday +3
We consider a non-spherical neutral particle spinning in free space and interacting with the electromagnetic quantum vacuum. When the rotation axis is orthogonal to the particle sy…
Microscopic Quantum Friction
Pedro H. Pereira, F. Impens, C. Farina +2
We report on a microscopic theory of quantum friction. Our approach investigates the interplay between the dispersive response and the relative center-of-mass motion of two ground-…
Dynamical Casimir effects with atoms: from the emission of photon pairs to geometric phases
François Impens, Reinaldo de Melo e Souza, Guilherme C. Matos +1
The coupling between a moving ground-state atom and the quantum electromagnetic field is at the origin of several intriguing phenomena ranging from the dynamical Casimir emission o…
Repulsive van der Waals interaction between a quantum particle and a conducting toroid
P. P. Abrantes, Yuri França, Reinaldo de Melo e Souza +2
We calculate the non-retarded dispersion force exerted on an electrically polarizable quantum particle by a perfectly conducting toroid, which is one of the most common objects exh…
Decoherence by spontaneous emission: a single-atom analog of superradiance
Reinaldo de Melo e Souza, François Impens, Paulo A. Maia Neto
We show that the stationary decoherence rate of an open quantum system can be decomposed as a sum of local and nonlocal contributions, respectively related to the strength of the c…
Image method in the calculation of the van der Waals force between an atom and a conducting surface
Reinaldo de Melo e Souza, W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, C. Sigaud +1
Initially, we make a detailed historical survey of van der Waals forces, collecting the main references on the subject. Then, we review a method recently proposed by Eberlein and Z…