Geometric phase corrections on a moving particle in front of a dielectric mirror
Geometric phase corrections on a moving particle in front of a dielectric mirror
We consider an atom (represented by a two-level system) moving in front of a dielectric plate, and study how traces of dissipation and decoherence (both effects induced by vacuum field fluctuations) can be found in the corrections to the unitary geometric phase accumulated by the atom. We consider the particle …