{
  "id": "0906.2272",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2009-06-12T08:00:19.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-01-04T14:18:04.000Z",
  "title": "Enhancement of thermal Casimir-Polder potentials of ground-state polar molecules in a planar cavity",
  "authors": [
    "Simen A. Ellingsen",
    "Stefan Yoshi Buhmann",
    "Stefan Scheel"
  ],
  "comment": "12 pages, 10 figures, minor corrections",
  "journal": "Physical Review A 80 (2), 022901 (2009)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.80.022901",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We analyze the thermal Casimir-Polder potential experienced by a ground-state molecule in a planar cavity and investigate the prospects for using such a set-up for molecular guiding. The resonant atom-field interaction associated with this non-equilibrium situation manifests itself in oscillating, standing-wave components of the potential. While the respective potential wells are normally too shallow to be useful, they may be amplified by a highly reflecting cavity whose width equals a half-integer multiple of a particular molecular transition frequency. We find that with an ideal choice of molecule and the use of ultra-high reflectivity Bragg mirror cavity, it may be possible to boost the potential by up to two orders of magnitude. We analytically derive the scaling of the potential depth as a function of reflectivity and analyze how it varies with temperature and molecular properties. It is also shown how the potential depth decreases for standing waves with a larger number of nodes. Finally, we investigate the lifetime of the molecular ground state in a thermal environment and find that it is not greatly influenced by the cavity and remains in the order of several seconds.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2010-01-04T14:18:04.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "34.35.+a",
      "12.20.-m",
      "42.50.Ct",
      "42.50.Nn"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "thermal casimir-polder potential",
      "ground-state polar molecules",
      "planar cavity",
      "ultra-high reflectivity bragg mirror cavity",
      "enhancement"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review A",
      "year": 2009,
      "month": "Aug",
      "volume": 80,
      "number": 2,
      "pages": "022901"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 12,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2009PhRvA..80b2901E"
    }
  }
}