Impact of anisotropy on the interaction of an atom with a one-dimensional nano-grating

DOI10.1142/S0217751X16410293MaRDI QIDQ2809442zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, Valery N. Marachevsky, Stefan Scheel

Publication date 30 May 2016

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03117

zbMATH Keywords

Rayleigh scatteringCasimir-Polder potentialmaterial grating

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

Abstract: We study the interaction of an atom with a one-dimensional nano-grating within the framework of macroscopic QED, with special emphasis on possible anisotropic contributions. To this end, we first derive the scattering Green's tensor of the grating by means of a Rayleigh expansion and discuss its symmetry properties and asymptotes. We then determine the Casimir--Polder potential of an atom with the grating. In particular, we find that strong anisotropy can lead to a repulsive Casimir--Polder potential in the normal direction.

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