Electromagnetic Interaction

Mitchel Weissbluth

Hristo Tonchev

This paper describes two cases of interaction between a quantized electromagnetic field and two different XY spin molecules; one with spins ½, and the other with spins 1. Both interact with a quantized electromagnetic field, with one of the spins in the chain interacting with the electromagnetic field. The interaction between the field mode and the spin chain with spins 1 is described by the one- and two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model (JC model). On the other hand, the interaction between the spins ½ and the electromagnetic field is described only by the one-photon Jaynes-Cummings model. Analytical and numerical calculations were made for the case of a different number of photons in the field mode, a different number of spins, and a different position of spin, interacting with the electromagnetic field. The invariant and block structures of such a chain are shown with a comparison made between the evolution of the magnetic moment and the number of photons in both cases.

Umberto Lucia, Giulia Grisolia

In the environment there exists a continuous interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter. So, atoms continuously interact with the photons of the environmental electromagnetic fields. This electromagnetic interaction is a consequence of thermal non-equilibrium. It introduces an element of randomness into atomic and molecular motion, which leads to the decrease of the path probability required for the microscopic reversibility of evolution. Recently, an energy footprint has been theoretically proven in the atomic electron-photon interaction, as well as the well known spectroscopic phase shift effect and the results on the irreversibility of the electromagnetic interaction with atoms and molecules, experimentally obtained by R.O. Doyle in 1968. Here, we want to show that such a quantum footprint is nothing more than the generation of time.

Rainer Dick

Martine Schut, Alexey Grinin, Andrew Dana +3 more

To test the quantum nature of gravity in a laboratory requires witnessing the entanglement between the two test masses (nanocrystals) solely due to the gravitational interaction kept at a distance in a spatial superposition. The protocol is known as the quantum-gravity-induced entanglement of masses (QGEM). One of the main backgrounds in the QGEM experiment is electromagnetic (EM) -induced entanglement and decoherence. The EM interactions can entangle the two neutral masses via dipole-dipole vacuum-induced interactions, such as the Casimir-Polder interaction. To mitigate the EM-induced interactions between the two nanocrystals, we enclose the two interferometers in a Faraday cage and separate them by a conducting plate. However, any imperfection on the surface of a nanocrystal, such as a permanent dipole moment, will also create an EM background interacting with the conducting plate in the experimental box. These interactions will further generate EM-induced dephasing, which we wish to mitigate. In this paper, we will consider a parallel configuration of the QGEM experiment, where we will estimate the EM-induced dephasing rate and run-by-run systematic errors which will induce dephasing, and also provide constraints on the size of the superposition in a model-independent way of creating the spatial superposition.