Dispersion interactions between neutral atoms and the quantum electrodynamical vacuum

R Passante - Symmetry, 2018 - mdpi.com
Dispersion interactions are long-range interactions between neutral ground-state atoms or
molecules, or polarizable bodies in general, due to their common interaction with the …

Radiative level shifts of an accelerated hydrogen atom and the Unruh effect in quantum electrodynamics

R Passante - Physical Review A, 1998 - APS
The contribution of vacuum fluctuations and the radiation reaction to the energy-level shifts
of a hydrogen atom, moving with uniform acceleration and interacting with the …

Casimir-Polder potential as an interaction between induced dipoles

EA Power, T Thirunamachandran - Physical Review A, 1993 - APS
The retarded van der Waals forces between neutral molecules in their ground states is
obtained by a conceptually simple route. Vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field …

Spontaneous excitation of an accelerated hydrogen atom coupled<? format?> with electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations

Z Zhu, H Yu, S Lu - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2006 - APS
We consider a multilevel hydrogen atom in interaction with the quantum electromagnetic
field and separately calculate the contributions of the vacuum fluctuation and radiation …

Radiative process of two entanglement atoms in de Sitter spacetime

X Liu, Z Tian, J Wang, J **g - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
We investigate the radiative processes of a quantum system composed by two identical two-
level atoms in the de Sitter spacetime, interacting with a conformally coupled massless …

Influence of the virtual-photon processes on the squeezing of light in the two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model

J Peng, G Li - Physical Review A, 1993 - APS
In this paper, we have investigated the influence of the counter-rotating terms on the
squeezing of light in the two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model by means of the …

Spontaneous excitation of an accelerated atom in a spacetime with a reflecting plane boundary

H Yu, S Lu - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2005 - APS
We study a two-level atom in interaction with a real massless scalar quantum field in a
spacetime with a reflecting boundary. The presence of the boundary modifies the quantum …

Spontaneous absorption of an accelerated hydrogen atom near a conducting plane in vacuum

H Yu, Z Zhu - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2006 - APS
We study, in the multipolar coupling scheme, a uniformly accelerated multilevel hydrogen
atom in interaction with the quantum electromagnetic field near a conducting boundary and …

Spontaneous excitation of a static atom in a thermal bath in cosmic string spacetime

H Cai, H Yu, W Zhou - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
We study the average rate of change of energy for a static atom immersed in a thermal bath
of electromagnetic radiation in the cosmic string spacetime and separately calculate the …

Cloud of virtual photons in the ground state of the hydrogen atom

R Passante, G Compagno, F Persico - Physical Review A, 1985 - APS
A spinless, nonrelativistic hydrogen atom coupled to an electromagnetic field is considered.
The interaction is taken in the minimal-coupling form, and the ground state of the coupled …