Dynamical Casimir effects with atoms: from the emission of photon pairs to geometric phases

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16387v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:19:12 GMT
• Title: Dynamical Casimir effects with atoms: from the emission of photon pairs to geometric phases
• Authors: Fran\c{c}ois Impens, Reinaldo de Melo e Souza, Guilherme C. Matos, and Paulo A. Maia Neto
• Abstract summary: Recent progress in this emerging field reveals unprecedented connections between non-trivial aspects of modern physics. The coupling between a moving ground-state atom and the quantum electromagnetic field is at the origin of several intriguing phenomena.
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• Abstract: The coupling between a moving ground-state atom and the quantum electromagnetic field is at the origin of several intriguing phenomena ranging from the dynamical Casimir emission of photons to Sagnac-like geometric phase shifts in atom interferometers. Recent progress in this emerging field reveals unprecedented connections between non-trivial aspects of modern physics such as electrodynamic retardation, non-unitary evolution in open quantum systems, geometric phases, non-locality and inertia.

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