Experimentally separating vacuum fluctuations from source radiation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18208v1
• Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:51:53 GMT
• Title: Experimentally separating vacuum fluctuations from source radiation
• Authors: Alexa Herter, Frieder Lindel, Laura Gabriel, Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, Jérôme Faist,
• Abstract summary: In 1932, Fermi introduced the two-atom problem, which explores how two atoms interact with the surrounding electromagnetic field via vacuum and source-radiation induced processes.<n>Recent advancements in ultrafast optics have enabled experimental analogues using two laser pulses inside a nonlinear crystal.<n>We show that vacuum fluctuations and source radiation correlate different quadratures of near-infrared laser pulses, allowing them to be individually probed.
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• Abstract: The unique distinction between vacuum-field and source-radiation induced effects in processes such as the Lamb shift, Casimir forces or spontaneous emission, remains unresolved even at the theoretical level, and an experimental approach was never considered feasible [1-4]. In 1932, Fermi introduced the two-atom problem, which is a Gedanken-experiment that explores how two atoms interact with the surrounding electromagnetic field via vacuum and source-radiation induced processes, providing fundamental insights into the behavior of quantum fields [5-9]. Recent advancements in ultrafast optics have enabled experimental analogues of this system using two laser pulses inside a nonlinear crystal [10-12]. Here, we demonstrate the detection of vacuum and source radiation induced correlations, separated by their causal properties, between two laser pulses. In particular, we show that vacuum fluctuations and source radiation correlate different quadratures of near-infrared laser pulses, allowing them to be individually probed through phase-sensitive detection. This result provides an experimental verification of the time-domain fluctuation-dissipation theorem at the quantum level and offers a novel path to studying quantum radiation effects in time-dependent media. Beyond resolving a longstanding theoretical ambiguity, our findings open new possibilities for investigating quantum field phenomena in the context of relativistic quantum information such as entanglement harvesting from the quantum vacuum or quantum field detection in analogues of curved space-times.

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