Rizzuto L, Passante R, Persico F
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche dell'Università degli Studi di Palermo and CNISM, Via Archirafi 36, I-90123 Palermo, Italy.
Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Jun 15;98(24):240404. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.240404. Epub 2007 Jun 14.
We consider the three-body Casimir-Polder interaction between three atoms during their dynamical self-dressing. We show that the time-dependent three-body Casimir-Polder interaction energy displays nonlocal features related to quantum properties of the electromagnetic field and to the nonlocality of spatial field correlations. We discuss the measurability of this intriguing phenomenon and its relation with the usual concept of stationary three-body forces.
我们考虑了三个原子在动态自修饰过程中的三体卡西米尔-波德相互作用。我们表明,随时间变化的三体卡西米尔-波德相互作用能量呈现出与电磁场的量子特性以及空间场相关性的非局域性相关的非局域特征。我们讨论了这一有趣现象的可测量性及其与稳态三体力的通常概念的关系。