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Electromagnetic field quantization in a linear polarizable and magnetizable medium
By modeling a linear polarizable and magnetizable medium (magneto-dielectric)
with two quantum fields, namely E and M, electromagnetic field is quantized in
such a medium consistently and systematically. A Hamiltonian is proposed from
which, using the Heisenberg equations, Maxwell and constitutive equations of
the medium are obtained. For a homogeneous medium, the equation of motion of
the quantum vector potential, , is derived and solved analytically.
Two coupling functions which describe the electromagnetic properties of the
medium are introduced. Four examples are considered showing the features and
the applicability of the model to both absorptive and nonabsorptive
magneto-dielectrics.Comment: 23 pages, Accepted for publication in Phy.Rev
Asymptotically Non-Static Kerr-deSitter Spacetime With No Event Horizon
We present our derivations for Kerr-deSitter metric in a proper comoving
coordinate system.It asymptotically approaches to the deSitter metric in
Robertson-walker form.This has been done by considring the stationary
axially-symmetric spacetime in which motion of particle is integrable.That is
the Hamilton-Jacobi and Klein-Gordon equations are separable.In this form it is
asymptotically consistent with comoving frame.Comment: Title changed,revised arguments,results unchanged
The electromagnetic field near a dielectric half-space
We compute the expectations of the squares of the electric and magnetic
fields in the vacuum region outside a half-space filled with a uniform
non-dispersive dielectric. This gives predictions for the Casimir-Polder force
on an atom in the `retarded' regime near a dielectric. We also find a positive
energy density due to the electromagnetic field. This would lead, in the case
of two parallel dielectric half-spaces, to a positive, separation-independent
contribution to the energy density, besides the negative, separation-dependent
Casimir energy. Rough estimates suggest that for a very wide range of cases,
perhaps including all realizable ones, the total energy density between the
half-spaces is positive.Comment: Latex2e, IOP macros, 15 pages, 2 eps figure
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