Mapping out atom-wall interaction with atomic clocks

Details Mapping out atom-wall interaction with atomic clocks Mapping out atom-wall interaction with atomic clocks

2009-05-29

arxiv.org/abs/0905.4780v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

4 pages, 4 figures

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We explore a feasibility of measuring atom-wall interaction using atomic clocks based on atoms trapped in engineered optical lattices. Optical lattice is normal to the wall. By monitoring the wall-induced clock shift at individual wells of the lattice, one would measure a dependence of the atom-wall interaction on the atom-wall separation. We rigorously evaluate the relevant clock shifts and show that the proposed scheme may uniquely probe the long-range atom-wall interaction in all three qualitatively-distinct regimes of the interaction: van der Waals (image-charge interaction), Casimir-Polder (QED vacuum fluctuations) and Lifshitz (thermal bath fluctuations). The analysis is carried out for atoms Mg, Ca, Sr, Cd, Zn, and Hg, with a particular emphasis on Sr clock.

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