Interatomic interaction of two ground-state atoms in vacuum: contributions of vacuum fluctuations and radiation reaction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11481v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:42:00 GMT
• Title: Interatomic interaction of two ground-state atoms in vacuum: contributions of vacuum fluctuations and radiation reaction
• Authors: Wenting Zhou, Shijing Cheng, and Hongwei Yu
• Abstract summary: We generalize the formalism proposed by Dalibard, Dupont-Roc and Cohen-Tannoudji to the fourth order of the coupling constant. We show that the interatomic potential can be attributed to the joint effect of both vacuum fluctuations and the radiation reaction of atoms.
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• Abstract: We generalize the formalism proposed by Dalibard, Dupont-Roc and Cohen-Tannoudji [the DDC formalism] to the fourth order of the coupling constant, which can be used to study the interatomic interaction of two ground-state atoms coupled with the vacuum scalar fields. We show that the interatomic potential can be attributed to the joint effect of both vacuum fluctuations and the radiation reaction of atoms. Remarkably, the formulae we derived for the contributions of vacuum fluctuations and the radiation reaction to the interatomic potential upon which future research on fourth-order effects in particular circumstances can be based differ from those in the existing literature [Phys. Rev. D 95, 085014 (2017)].

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