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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2008

Probing quantum vacuum geometrical effects with cold atoms

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The lateral Casimir-Polder force between an atom and a corrugated surface should allow one to study experimentally non trivial geometrical effects in quantum vacuum. Here, we derive the theoretical expression of this force in a scattering approach that accounts for the optical properties of the corrugated surface. We show that large corrections to the ``proximity force approximation'' could be measured using present-day technology with a Bose-Einstein condensate used as a vacuum field sensor.

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hal-00175281 , version 1 (27-09-2007)

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Diego A. R. Dalvit, Paulo A. Maia Neto, Astrid Lambrecht, Serge Reynaud. Probing quantum vacuum geometrical effects with cold atoms. Physical Review Letters, 2008, 100, pp.040405. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.040405⟩. ⟨hal-00175281⟩
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