Canonical quantization of the electromagnetic field interacting with a moving dielectric medium
Horsley, S.A.R.
Date: 20 August 2012
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Journal
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
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American Physical Society
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Abstract
The electromagnetic field is canonically quantized in the presence of a linear, dispersive, and dissipative medium that is in uniform motion. Specifically we calculate the change in the normal modes of the coupled matter-field system and find a Hamiltonian that contains negative-energy normal modes. We interpret these modes as the ...
The electromagnetic field is canonically quantized in the presence of a linear, dispersive, and dissipative medium that is in uniform motion. Specifically we calculate the change in the normal modes of the coupled matter-field system and find a Hamiltonian that contains negative-energy normal modes. We interpret these modes as the origin of phenomena such as quantum friction and find that a detector initially in its ground state and coupled to the electromagnetic field in the vicinity of, or within, a uniformly moving medium has a nonzero probability of excitation at T=0 K.
Physics and Astronomy
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy
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