MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS — CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS

By S. Scheel, Stefan Yoshi Buhmann. 2008

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In this article, we review the principles of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics and discuss a variety of applications of this theory to medium-assisted atom-field coupling and dispersion forces. The theory generalises the standard mode expansion of the electromagnetic fields in free space to allow for the presence of absorbing bodies. We show that macroscopic quantum electrodynamics provides the link between isolated atomic systems and magnetoelectric bodies, and serves as an important tool for the understanding of surface-assisted atomic relaxation effects and the intimately connected position-dependent energy shifts which give rise to Casimir‐Polder and van der Waals forces.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1718fe3021ba80f525f9bf32bac824c7bc35b550

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. F. García-Vidal
2. C. Climent
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4. Javier Galego
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6. S. A. Maier
7. Luis Martin-Moreno

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• Cavity Casimir-Polder Forces and Their Effects in Ground-State Chemical Reactivity (2018, methodology): “In particular, the cavity material together with the EM-field modes will have approximately bosonic eigenmodes that can be identified as the “cavity modes” and, in general, will be given by superpositions of material and EM-field excitations [47], as explicitly shown for plasmonic systems in Ref.”