Atom–wall dispersive forces from the master equation formalism

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/26/016zbMATH Open1136.82360arXivquant-ph/0703186OpenAlexW2039147700MaRDI QIDQ5297535FDOQ5297535

Authors: T. Mendes, C. Farina 

Publication date: 11 July 2007

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using the general expressions for level shifts obtained from the master equation for a small system interacting with a large one considered as a reservoir, we calculate the dispersive potentials between an atom and a wall in the dipole approximation. We analyze in detail the particular case of a two-level atom in the presence of a perfectly conducting wall. We study the van der Waals as well as the resonant interactions. All distance regimes as well as the high and low temperature regimes are considered. We show that the Casimir-Polder interaction can not be considered as a direct result of the vacuum fluctuations only. Concerning the interaction between the atom and the wall at high temperature, which show that a saturation of the potential for all distances occurs. This saturated potential coincides exactly with that obtained in the London-van der Waals limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0703186

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Molecular physics (81V55) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25)

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