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Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a dielectric slab

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posted on 2023-06-07, 21:33 authored by Ana Mariá Contreras Reyes, Claudia Eberlein
We present an explicit analytic calculation of the energy-level shift of an atom in front of a nondispersive and nondissipative dielectric slab. We work with the fully quantized electromagnetic field, taking retardation into account. We give the shift as a two-dimensional integral and use asymptotic analysis to find expressions for it in various retarded and nonretarded limiting cases. The results can be used to estimate the energy shift of an atom close to layered microstructures.

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Physical Review A

ISSN

1050-2947

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3

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80

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032901-1-032901-10

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  • Physics and Astronomy Publications

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Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-03-22

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-08-17

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