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Canonical quantization of electromagnetic field in an anisotropic polarizable and magnetizable medium with spatial-temporal dispersion
Modeling an anisotropic spatially and temporarily dispersive
magnetodielectric medium by two independent collections of three dimensional
vector fields, we demonstrate a fully canonical quantization of electromagnetic
field in the presence of such a medium. Two tensor fields which couple the
electromagnetic field with the medium and have an important role in this
quantization method are introduced. The electric and magnetic polarization
fields of the medium naturally are concluded in terms of the coupling tensors
and the dynamical variables modeling the magnetodielectric medium. In
Heisenberg picture, the constitutive equations of the medium together with the
Maxwell laws are obtained as the equations of motion of the total system and
the susceptibility tensors of the medium are calculated in terms of the
coupling tensors. Following a perturbation method the Green function related to
the total system is found and the time dependence of electromagnetic field
operators is derived.Comment: 19 pages, No figur
Green functions and propagation of waves in strongly inhomogeneous media
We show that Green functions of second-order differential operators with
singular or unbounded coefficients can have an anomalous behaviour in
comparison to the well-known properties of Green functions of operators with
bounded coefficients. We discuss some consequences of such an anomalous short
or long distance behaviour for a diffusion and wave propagation in an
inhomogeneous medium
Van-der-Waals potentials of paramagnetic atoms
We study single- and two-atom van der Waals interactions of ground-state
atoms which are both polarizable and paramagnetizable in the presence of
magneto-electric bodies within the framework of macroscopic quantum
electrodynamics. Starting from an interaction Hamiltonian that includes
particle spins, we use leading-order perturbation theory for the van der Waals
potentials expressed in terms of the polarizability and magnetizability of the
atom(s). To allow for atoms embedded in media, we also include local-field
corrections via the real-cavity model. The general theory is applied to the
potential of a single atom near a half space and that of two atoms embedded in
a bulk medium or placed near a sphere, respectively.Comment: 18 pages, 3 figures, 1 tabl
Casimir Forces and Graphene Sheets
The Casimir force between two infinitely thin parallel sheets in a setting of
such sheets is found. The finite two-dimensional conductivities, which
describe the dispersive and absorptive properties of each sheet, are taken into
account, whereupon the theory is applied to interacting graphenes. By exploring
similarities with in-plane optical spectra for graphite, the conductivity of
graphene is modeled as a combination of Lorentz type oscillators. We find that
the graphene transparency and the existence of a universal constant
conductivity result in graphene/graphene Casimir interaction at
large separations to have the same distance dependence as the one for perfect
conductors but with much smaller magnitude
Field quantization in inhomogeneous anisotropic dielectrics with spatio-temporal dispersion
A quantum damped-polariton model is constructed for an inhomogeneous
anisotropic linear dielectric with arbitrary dispersion in space and time. The
model Hamiltonian is completely diagonalized by determining the creation and
annihilation operators for the fundamental polariton modes as specific linear
combinations of the basic dynamical variables. Explicit expressions are derived
for the time-dependent operators describing the electromagnetic field, the
dielectric polarization and the noise term in the latter. It is shown how to
identify bath variables that generate the dissipative dynamics of the medium.Comment: 24 page
Casimir-Polder forces: A non-perturbative approach
Within the frame of macroscopic QED in linear, causal media, we study the
radiation force of Casimir-Polder type acting on an atom which is positioned
near dispersing and absorbing magnetodielectric bodies and initially prepared
in an arbitrary electronic state. It is shown that minimal and multipolar
coupling lead to essentially the same lowest-order perturbative result for the
force acting on an atom in an energy eigenstate. To go beyond perturbation
theory, the calculations are based on the exact center-of-mass equation of
motion. For a nondriven atom in the weak-coupling regime, the force as a
function of time is a superposition of force components that are related to the
electronic density-matrix elements at a chosen time. Even the force component
associated with the ground state is not derivable from a potential in the
ususal way, because of the position dependence of the atomic polarizability.
Further, when the atom is initially prepared in a coherent superposition of
energy eigenstates, then temporally oscillating force components are observed,
which are due to the interaction of the atom with both electric and magnetic
fields.Comment: 23 pages, 3 figures, additional misprints correcte
Cavity-assisted spontaneous emission as a single-photon source: Pulse shape and efficiency of one-photon Fock state preparation
Within the framework of exact quantum electrodynamics in dispersing and
absorbing media, we have studied the quantum state of the radiation emitted
from an initially in the upper state prepared two-level atom in a high-
cavity, including the regime where the emitted photon belongs to a wave packet
that simultaneously covers the areas inside and outside the cavity. For both
continuing atom--field interaction and short-term atom--field interaction, we
have determined the spatio-temporal shape of the excited outgoing wave packet
and calculated the efficiency of the wave packet to carry a one-photon Fock
state. Furthermore, we have made contact with quantum noise theories where the
intracavity field and the field outside the cavity are regarded as
approximately representing independent degrees of freedom such that two
separate Hilbert spaces can be introduced.Comment: 16 pages, 7 eps figures; improved version as submitted to Phys. Rev.
Characterization of unwanted noise in realistic cavities
The problem of the description of absorption and scattering losses in high-Q
cavities is studied. The considerations are based on quantum noise theories,
hence the unwanted noise associated with scattering and absorption is taken
into account by introduction of additional damping and noise terms in the
quantum Langevin equations and input--output relations. Completeness conditions
for the description of the cavity models obtained in this way are studied and
corresponding replacement schemes are discussed.Comment: Contribution to XI International Conference on Quantum Optics, Minsk,
Belarus, 26-31 May, 200
Three-dimensional quantization of the electromagnetic field in dispersive and absorbing inhomogeneous dielectrics
A quantization scheme for the phenomenological Maxwell theory of the full
electromagnetic field in an inhomogeneous three-dimensional, dispersive and
absorbing dielectric medium is developed. The classical Maxwell equations with
spatially varying and Kramers-Kronig consistent permittivity are regarded as
operator-valued field equations, introducing additional current- and
charge-density operator fields in order to take into account the noise
associated with the dissipation in the medium. It is shown that the equal-time
commutation relations between the fundamental electromagnetic fields
and and the potentials and in the Coulomb gauge
can be expressed in terms of the Green tensor of the classical problem. From
the Green tensors for bulk material and an inhomogeneous medium consisting of
two bulk dielectrics with a common planar interface it is explicitly proven
that the well-known equal-time commutation relations of QED are preserved
Trapping cold atoms near carbon nanotubes: thermal spin flips and Casimir-Polder potential
We investigate the possibility to trap ultracold atoms near the outside of a
metallic carbon nanotube (CN) which we imagine to use as a miniaturized
current-carrying wire. We calculate atomic spin flip lifetimes and compare the
strength of the Casimir-Polder potential with the magnetic trapping potential.
Our analysis indicates that the Casimir-Polder force is the dominant loss
mechanism and we compute the minimum distance to the carbon nanotube at which
an atom can be trapped.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
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