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Technische Universität Dresden

Phonon-mediated Casimir effect

Abstract

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The Casimir interaction is the fundamental physical phenomenon which emerges due to modification of vacuum fluctuations by boundaries in a confined area of space. It arises in many fields of physics, including condensed matter. Recently, substantial interest in the Casimir effect has revived as a result of the significant progress in the experimental techniques in cold atoms. In this thesis, we develop the description of the phonon-mediated Casimir interaction taking into account multiple phonon-impurity scatterings, that strongly renormalize the resulting interaction between the impurities. Our results, formulated in terms of the T-matrix formalism, generalize previous studies of the Casimir interaction between different kind of impurities and allow estimation of the expected phonon-induced Casimir interaction in various systems. Further, we consider a propagation of a singe hole in a two-dimensional ferromagnet accompanied by spin-flip processes. We show that an external magnetic field can be used to manipulate the properties of the single-layer system. For easy plain ferromagnets, at saturation value of the external field perpendicular to the easy axis, the Green’s function demonstrates the branch cut behavior. It is contrasted to the systems of an itinerant quasiparticle in the antiferromagnetic background where the quasiparticle retains the finite quasiparticle weight. The considered magnon scattering processes on a single itinerant electron (hole) in a two-dimensional ferromagnet can be used further for the magnon-mediated Casimir interaction in quasi-two-dimensional ferromagnets.

Degree

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Level thesis:degree_level
thesis.doctoral
Grantor dc:publisher
Technische Universität Dresden
Year
2019

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Pavlov, Andrei
Contributors dc:contributor
  • van den Brink, Jeroen
  • Efremov, Dmitri
  • Skrotzki, Werner
  • Lavrov, Eduard
  • Sykora, Steffen

Subjects

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citation

Pavlov, Andrei. Phonon-mediated Casimir effect. thesis.doctoral thesis, Technische Universität Dresden, 2019.