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Nonlocal field correlations and dynamical Casimir-Polder forces between one excited- and two ground-state atoms
Lucia RizzutoF. PersicoRoberto Passantesubject
PhysicsSpontaneous decayQuantum PhysicsField (physics)Dynamical dispersion forceFOS: Physical sciencesThree-body forcesCondensed Matter PhysicsAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsCasimir effectQuantum nonlocalityQuantum mechanicsExcited statePhysics::Atomic and Molecular ClustersCausality and nonlocalityPhysics::Atomic PhysicsObservabilityQuantum Physics (quant-ph)Ground statedescription
The problem of nonlocality in the dynamical three-body Casimir-Polder interaction between an initially excited and two ground-state atoms is considered. It is shown that the nonlocal spatial correlations of the field emitted by the excited atom during the initial part of its spontaneous decay may become manifest in the three-body interaction. The observability of this new phenomenon is discussed.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-11-13 |