Dear Friends,
On Thursday, March 7, there will be an ITAMP topical lunch discussion.
Tea Room (P-226) @ CfA (60 Garden Street)
Time: 12:00-1:30
As always pizza will be served.
Speaker: Alexandre Dodonov
Title: Brief review on the Dynamical Casimir Effect (DCE) and its detection
Abstract:
Dynamical Casimir effect (DCE) is the term used nowadays for a rather wide
group of phenomena whose common feature is the creation of quanta from the
initial vacuum state of some field due to time-modulation of material
properties or boundary conditions of some macroscopic system. In the
majority of cases this corresponds to the creation of
photon pairs from the electromagnetic vacuum due to the motion of a
mirror in empty space, oscillation of a cavity wall or modulation
of the dielectric properties of the medium inside it. In my talk I
shall give a brief
review on the DCE in cavities and discuss some proposals for
the detection of DCE photons using intracavity quantum
detectors, such as multi-level atoms, atomic networks and antennas.
[1] A. V. Dodonov, Continuous intracavity monitoring of the
dynamical Casimir effect, Phys. Scr. 87, 038103 (2013).
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Misha Lemeshko
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Dr. Mikhail Lemeshko
Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (ITAMP)
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics MS-14
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Cambridge, MA 02138
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