Published November 15, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Relative Energy Shift of a Two-Level Atom in a Cylindrical Spacetime

Creators

  • 1. Institute of Physics and Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of Ministry of Education, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081 (China)

Description

We investigate the evolution dynamics of a two-level atom system interacting with the massless scalar field in a Cylindrical spacetime. We find that both the energy shifts of ground state and excited state can be separated into two parts due to the vacuum fluctuations. One is the corresponding energy shift for a rest atom in four-dimensional Minkowski space without spatial compactification, the other is just the modification of the spatial compactified periodic length. It will reveal that the influence of the presence of one spatial compactified dimension can not be neglected in Lamb shift as the relative energy level shift of an atom.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0253-6102/58/5/08

Additional details

Identifiers

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Communications in Theoretical Physics
Journal Volume
58
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 657-660
ISSN
0253-6102