3 papers
quant-ph2025
Purcell-enhanced quantum adsorption
Dennis P. Clougherty
Cold atoms can adsorb to a surface with the emission of a single phonon when the binding energy is sufficiently small. The effects of phonon damping and adsorbent size on the adsor…
quant-ph2025
Quantum Lamb model
Dennis P. Clougherty, Nam H. Dinh
H. Lamb considered the classical dynamics of a vibrating particle embedded in an elastic medium before the development of quantum theory. Lamb was interested in how the back-action…
cond-mat.mes-hall2024
Variational approach to atom-membrane dynamics
Dennis P. Clougherty
Using the Dirac-Frenkel variational principle, a time-dependent description of the dynamics of a two-level system coupled to a bosonic bath is formulated. The method is applied to…