3 papers
quant-ph2001
Quantum vacuum fluctuations
Serge Reynaud, Astrid Lambrecht, Cyriaque Genet +1
The existence of irreducible field fluctuations in vacuum is an important prediction of quantum theory. These fluctuations have many observable consequences, like the Casimir effec…
quant-ph1998
The Casimir force for passive mirrors
A. Lambrecht, M. -T. Jaekel, S. Reynaud
We show that the Casimir force between mirrors with arbitrary frequency dependent reflectivities obeys bounds due to causality and passivity properties. The force is always smaller…
quant-ph1998
Atomic number fluctuations in a falling cold atom cloud
A. Lambrecht, E. Giacobino, S. Reynaud
We evaluate the effective number of atoms in experiments where a probe laser beam with a Gaussian profile passes through an atomic medium consisting of a cold atom cloud released f…