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Causality, non-locality and three-body Casimir–Polder energy between three ground-state atoms
Lucia RizzutoRoberto PassanteF. Persicosubject
Condensed Matter::Quantum GasesElectromagnetic fieldPhysicsQuantum opticsThree-body dispersion forces.Interaction energyCondensed Matter PhysicsThree-body problemAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsMany-body problemCausality (physics)Casimir effectQuantum electrodynamicQuantum mechanicsCausality and non-localityPhysics::Atomic and Molecular ClustersPhysics::Atomic PhysicsGround statedescription
The problem of relativistic causality in the time-dependent three-body Casimir–Polder interaction energy between three atoms, initially in their bare ground-state, is discussed. It is shown that the non-locality of the spatial correlations of the electromagnetic field emitted by the atoms during their dynamical self-dressing may become manifest in the dynamical three-body Casimir–Polder interaction energy between the three atoms.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-07-24 | Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics |