Published November 15, 2012
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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/10.1088/0253-6102/58/5/08Additional 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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- China
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 44045603
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ATOMS; COMPACTIFICATION; CYLINDRICAL CONFIGURATION; ENERGY LEVELS; EXCITED STATES; FLUCTUATIONS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GROUND STATES; LAMB SHIFT; MINKOWSKI SPACE; MODIFICATIONS; PERIODICITY; SCALAR FIELDS; SPACE-TIME
- Descriptors DEC
- CONFIGURATION; ENERGY LEVELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; SPACE; SPECTRAL SHIFT; VARIATIONS