Dispersion Interactions between Neutral Atoms and the Quantum Electrodynamical Vacuum
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Atom-Field Interaction Hamiltonian: Minimal and Multipolar Coupling
3. Effective Hamiltonians
4. Vacuum Fluctuations
5. The Van Der Waals and Casimir–Polder Dispersion Interaction between Two Neutral Ground-State Atoms
6. The Three-Body Casimir–Polder Interaction
7. Two- and Three-Body Dispersion Interactions as a Consequence of Vacuum Field Fluctuations
7.1. Dressed Field Energy Densities
7.2. Vacuum Field Correlations
8. Casimir–Polder Forces between Atoms Nearby Macroscopic Boundaries
9. Casimir–Polder and Resonance Interactions between Uniformly Accelerated Atoms
10. Conclusions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Chicago/Turabian StylePassante, Roberto. 2018. "Dispersion Interactions between Neutral Atoms and the Quantum Electrodynamical Vacuum" Symmetry 10, no. 12: 735. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym10120735