One-Loop Dominance in the Imaginary Part of the Polarizability: Application to Blackbody and Noncontact van der Waals Friction
One-Loop Dominance in the Imaginary Part of the Polarizability: Application to Blackbody and Noncontact van der Waals Friction
Phenomenologically important quantum dissipative processes include blackbody friction (an atom absorbs counterpropagating blueshifted photons and spontaneously emits them in all directions, losing kinetic energy) and noncontact van der Waals friction (in the vicinity of a dielectric surface, the mirror charges of the constituent particles inside the surface experience drag, slowing …