The Casimir-Polder effect for an approximate Pauli-Fierz model: the atom plus wall case

arXiv2208.02203MaRDI QIDQ6406889FDOQ6406889

Publication date: 3 August 2022

Abstract: We study a system composed of a hydrogen atom interacting with an infinite conductor wall. The interaction energy decays like

L^{- 3}

, where

L

is the distance between the atom and the wall, due to the emergence of the van der Waals forces. In this paper we show how, considering the contributions from the quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field, the interaction is weakened to a decay of order

L^{- 4}

giving rise to the retardation effects which fall under the name of Casimir-Polder effect. The analysis is done by studying a suitable Pauli-Fierz model associated to the system, in dipole approximation and reduced to the interaction with 0 and 1 photon.

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