• 文献标题:   Motion-Induced Radiation Due to an Atom in the Presence of a Graphene Plane
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   FOSCO CD, LOMBARDO FC, MAZZITELLI FD
  • 作者关键词:   dynamical casimir effect, quantum friction, graphene
  • 出版物名称:   UNIVERSE
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  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.3390/universe7050158
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

We study the motion-induced radiation due to the non-relativistic motion of an atom, coupled to the vacuum electromagnetic field by an electric dipole term, in the presence of a static graphene plate. After computing the probability of emission for an accelerated atom in empty space, we evaluate the corrections due to the presence of the plate. We show that the effect of the plate is to increase the probability of emission when the atom is near the plate and oscillates along a direction perpendicular to it. On the contrary, for parallel oscillations, there is a suppression. We also evaluate the quantum friction on an atom moving at constant velocity parallel to the plate. We show that there is a threshold for quantum friction: friction occurs only when the velocity of the atom is larger than the Fermi velocity of the electrons in graphene.