A novel formalism for the evaluation of the Casimir-Polder potential in an arbitrary gauge of vector potentials is introduced. The ground state energy of a neutral atom in the presence of an infinite two-dimensional plane with Chern-Simons interaction is derived at zero temperature. The essential feature of the result is its dependence on the antisymmetric part of a dipole moment correlation function.

Original languageEnglish
Article number065005
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume81
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Mar 2010

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