Boundary effects of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations on charged particles

TL;DR

This paper investigates how electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations near a conducting boundary affect charged particles, demonstrating observable coherence reduction and analyzing charge dynamics through a stochastic equation of motion.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of boundary effects on vacuum fluctuations and their impact on charged particles' coherence and motion near conducting surfaces.

Findings

Vacuum fluctuations significantly reduce electron coherence near conducting plates.

Derived a stochastic equation of motion for charges influenced by boundary-modified electromagnetic fields.

Analyzed velocity fluctuations of charges under boundary effects.

Abstract

The effects of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations with the boundary on charged particles is investigated. They may be observed via an electron interference experiment near the conducting plate, where boundary effects of vacuum fluctuations are found significant on coherence reduction of the electrons. The dynamics of the charge under the influence of quantized electromagnetic fields with a conducting plate is also studied. The corresponding stochastic equation of motion is derived in the semiclassical approximation, and the behavior of the charge's velocity fluctuations is discussed.