10. van der Waals and Casimir interactions
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Ketterle, Wolfgang
In this lecture, the professor discussed van der Waals and Casimir interactions.
 The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. To make a donation or view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare at ocw.mit.edu. So the subject here is about that we want to understand interactions between neutral objects. So let's start in a very basic way by saying we have an atom A. We have an atom B. They are separated by a distance r. And we want to know what is the force between them. In a semi-classical picture, we would say that everything is the force which is responsible for that must be the Coulomb force. So the atom A and B consist of charges. So we should find the charge density in our system A, the charge density of B. We take the Coulomb energy and we integrate over the volume. And this is how in E and M, in the most general way, you would write down the electrostatic energy of a system. You take all charges, each charge has a Coulomb potential with the other charge and you sum and integrate over everything. But for objects which are localized and we can do multipole expansion, our objects are neutral, neutral atoms, so therefore there is no Coulomb term. And the next term is the dipole. So therefore, starting with classical physics, we would find that the interaction of those charge density distributions, one for atom A, one for atom B, should actually interact with this Hamiltonian H prime. OK. But now, if we look at it classically, we find that classically, the expectation value for the dipole operator of each atom is 0. But you will also find, if you said, well, OK, that's what I expect, because an atom is in isotropic space, how can it have a dipole moment? But maybe what could happen is, if there is a fluctuation of a dipole moment here and a fluctuation there and the fluctuations are correlated, then the two systems may repel or attract each other. So therefore, when we are talking about fluctuations, we are talking about expectation values for d square, but also in classical physics, this is exactly 0. So what classical physics tells us, it says, in classical physics, it costs more energy to create a dipole moment, or even a fluctuating dipole moment, than one gets back from the dipole interaction. So the system will never spontaneously form some form of dipole moment. And in classical physics, two neutral atoms will have no attraction at all. So it costs more energy. So now we have to do quantum mechanics. And as so often, I have to go through a classical argument to make you wonder about the quantum mechanical result, because the quantum mechanical result, you're used to it. You've heard about the Wanderwald's interaction, but now you know that there is really something quantum at work. In quantum mechanics, the expectation value of the square of the dipole operator is not 0. I mean, you can see that if you have an electron which is in a harmonic oscillator, and if it is at the bottom of the oscillator, it has less energy. So the dipole moment for a charge system is related to between electron and proton to the displacement operator r. And even if you have an equilibrium position, like in a harmonic oscillator where r is equal to 0, r square, the expectation value is not 0, because whatever your stable equilibrium is, you will have 0 point fluctuations around it. And so therefore, now in quantum physics, it's not that we have to provide energy to create a d square. We have it. We have it by necessity because of non-commuting operators, because of the nature of quantum physics. So now the fact that we have fluctuating dipole moments already, that means if now the fluctuating dipole moments between the two atoms are synchronized, this will then lead to a non-vanishing average force between the atoms. So that's sort of the idea. But the good thing is you don't even have to know about it, about fluctuations and all that. You just take, and this is your homework, you just take the operator H prime, and look what happens when you have an atom in the ground in excited state, and what happens when you have both atoms in the ground state. In the first case, you get the leading result in first order perturbation theory. For two ground state atoms, you have to go to second order. In first order, the potential is 1 over r cubed. And you will calculate the C3 coefficient. In second order, you get the Wanderwald's potential, which is 1 over r to the 6. And it's fairly straightforward to calculate the C6 coefficient. Any questions? So let me reemphasize. The beauty of this perturbation resulted in so simple, but the downside is you don't really understand what you're doing. I mean, you're solving Schrodinger equation, you find an expectation value, but the nature of the effect, how it is related to fluctuation, what is really behind it, is sometimes obscured. So let me give you one interpretation which I really like. And I learned that actually from Dan Kleppner. When he taught the atomic physics course at MIT 20 years ago, that was one element of it. And I told you at the beginning that I'm actually proud that our atomic physics course has hopefully kept the best of the decade-long tradition of teachers like Norman Ramsey, Dan Kleppner, and Dave Bridgshard. So this is now really due to Dan Kleppner. And I will later today actually post Dan Kleppner's original lecture notes about this effect. So we want to understand the Wanderwald's force in a completely different system. And I think that helps. We have two LC circuits. This is L, C, C, L. And what happens is the two capacitors are closed. So there is a stray field of one capacitor reaching the other capacitor. So I won't go through the detailed math here because it's not necessary. But what we have here is we have two coupled systems, two coupled capacitors. And the only thing I want to use is that the stray field of the capacitor has a dipolar characteristic and it decays with 1 over r cubed. So what we have right now is each LC circuit, when it's isolated, has a resonance frequency of omega naught. But now when we have two pendulums, two oscillators which are coupled, we get two modes which are omega plus and minus. And if we simply solve for two modes and they have some coupling, well, we get an upshift and downshift by the coupling. But if we look more carefully at the solution for two coupled modes, it has also a quadratic effect which is sometimes neglected, but it's there. So this is, in general, what you will find if you couple two modes. Now in quantum mechanics, when we ask for the oscillator in the ground state, we can find the zero point energy. And so the two energy in the ground state is 1 half the zero point energy in the mode plus, in the mode minus. The first order coupling term, the 1 over r cubed, cancels out, but what remains is a contribution which is 1 over r to the 6. So we need quantum physics. We need, because in classical physics, the ground state of the LC circuit is nothing happens. No charge, no current, no nothing. I mean, this is a classical ground state and you would not get any effect. So realize that this Wanderwald's potential requires quantum mechanics and it is due to the zero point energy of the atomic oscillators. Just hold the thought. When we talk about atoms in the electromagnetic field, we have two oscillators. We have a harmonic oscillator which is a fluctuating dipole moment in each side of the atom. But we have many, many harmonic oscillators in between which is the electromagnetic field. During the course of this lecture, I will refer to both the zero point energy of the atomic oscillator and the zero point energy of the oscillator which is the electromagnetic field. And to give you the result at the end, I will sort of explain different effects by the zero point oscillation of the atoms, other effects by the zero point oscillation of the electromagnetic field. But at the end of this section, which is probably after spring break on Monday, I will actually tell you that you have to be careful. If you have quantum physics, you have to use a consistent description, and you always need that both the field and the atoms are quantized and have zero point fluctuations. And when I'm telling you now that the Van der Waals potential is only to zero point fluctuations of the atomic oscillator, there may be another way of getting the same result by looking at the zero point fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. So I just want you to take what I'm saying. You are not saying you anything wrong, but it may not be the only way of expressing it. And I want you sort of just to pay attention to it. So but certain effects can be simpler described by simply looking at the atomic oscillators. Why do we need the quantized electromagnetic field when all we want to do is have a stray field coupling two capacitors? So we want to always learn about the simplest way to understand an effect. But then in the end, there are maybe certain subtleties. But let's keep it simple. So it's a zero point energy of the two oscillators. And maybe let me emphasize this by translating this description, what we learned from the capacitors. Let me give you the equivalent description of the atom. So an atom will never have in free space a spontaneous dipole moment. But because of zero point oscillation, it will have a dipole moment squared. So what happens now is, let's say at some moment, we have a fluctuation. One atom happens to have a fluctuation of the dipole moment. This creates an electric field at the position of the atom B. So this is a fluctuating field. The fluctuating field, because there's a finite polarizability, induces a dipole moment of the atom, DB. I will later introduce polarizabilities, but here it's just proportional to EB. So that's proportional to DA over R cubed. So now, we have no longer randomly fluctuating dipole moments with DA, DB, which are out of phase, positive and minus, cancels out. We have a dipole moment, DA, which creates through polarizability an aligned dipole moment, DB. And for those, we have now the dipole-dipole interaction, which is DBDA over R cubed. And when DA changes sign, so the product of them will always stay the same. And now we find that we have an interaction. If you look, DB was 1 over R cubed. And if you multiply that with the R cubed of the dipole-dipole interaction, we obtain, in a very different way, the Wanderwald's potential, which is 1 over R through the 6. So therefore, what we can take away from that is that the 1 over R to the 6 potential is caused by the 0 point fluctuations of the atomic dipole moments. OK. So now you have already three different ways to look at the Wanderwald's potential. One is just doing perturbation theory, not understanding anything. The second one is the ground state of two coupled oscillators, aller two capacitors. And finally, the fact that spontaneous fluctuations create stimulated fluctuations. And then there is a quadratic term which doesn't vanish. OK. Well, let's now consider that the electromagnetic field, that there is an electromagnetic field, until now we have not really used the fact that we have an electromagnetic field with photons. And the electromagnetic fields, each mode is a harmonic oscillator. And each mode of the electromagnetic field has 0 point fluctuations of itself. So let us now discuss what can the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field do for us. Well, if we have fluctuations, momentary fluctuations of the electric field of the vacuum, the fluctuation at position A and position B will induce now dipole moments of the atom A and B by multiplying with the atomic polarizability. And if you assume, I say a little bit more about it, that we're talking about a long wavelength fluctuation of the electric field, then the two dipole moments, which are induced by those vacuum fluctuations, are actually in phase. So the key word is now that the vacuum fluctuations create correlated dipole moments. So the dipole moments are no longer independently fluctuating by themselves. So if you write down now the dipole interaction, we will find a result which is proportional to the product of the two polarizabilities. The dipole interaction has an intrinsic spatial dependence, which is 1 over r cubed. But now the important term is that we have to calculate the correlation function of the electric field at position A and position B, and these are the vacuum fluctuations. I'm not doing the calculation because it would be somewhat messy. I will post on the web a fairly easy to read paper by Larry Spruch in physics today, and he gives you a little bit more details. But you have already the physics in this equation. What you should use now is you have to use the density of modes, and for each mode, the zero point energy, 1 half h per omega. And then what you get is you get an interaction which is 1 over r to the 7. Yes, Benji? When you're counting here only the dipole moment which are insects, right? So they're coming from the fluctuation of longerness in the air. Yes. And what is the effect of those? But they are in the electric field fluctuation from vacuum. So what are the effect of those shutter waves? Because higher energy is a huge issue. Excellent question. Actually, I need that in 10 minutes I need exactly the answer to your question. So let me give you the answer right now. If you look at this expression, there are two things which come into place. One is we have now two atoms separated by a distance r which is rA minus rB. If you take now high frequency modes which have very short wavelengths and you integrate in some over all of them, it's pretty clear that you will get plus and minus which will completely average out. So it seems very clear that the modes with wavelengths lambda shorter, definitely much shorter than r, average out. So therefore, the bulk of the contribution will actually come from the modes with wavelengths smaller than r. But now there is something else. The density of states for the electromagnetic field dramatically increases with frequency omega. So we have many more modes at short wavelengths. So therefore, the argument says, well, the long wavelengths mode up to wavelengths r are the dominant ones. They don't average out. But because the density of modes increases, the shorter the wavelengths is, by far the dominant contribution will come from the modes which are centered around lambda equals r. So the density of modes implies now that those modes will dominate. So that's the answer. But ultimately, you have to put everything into an equation, have an integral solve the integral, do some approximation, and you will exactly see from the density of modes that the very long wavelengths don't contribute. And you will also see that because of rapid averageings of e to the ikr phase factors, the high frequency modes will not contribute. OK, so we have now two different power laws. One is 1 over r to the 6, and one is 1 over r to the 7. So let's explain that now. So we obtained the 1 over r6 by using the uncertainty principle for atoms. And here we have used the uncertainty principle, the zero point fluctuations for electromagnetic waves. When we derived the 1 over r6 potential, we actually used simply the electrostatic instantaneous Coulomb field, dipole field. And this is only valid for short range when I said we have a fluctuation, and the fluctuation created another one, which was in phase. But if one fluctuation has to send out an electromagnetic wave, the second fluctuation may not be in it. When propagation effects come into play, there's a time lag between the two oscillators may actually be out of phase. So we really assumed in the derivation without ever saying it explicitly that there are no propagation effects. And this is called the short range potential, whereas for the second argument that we said we have two distant atoms which get synchronized by being driven by fluctuations of the electromagnetic wave at wavelength lambda equals r. This is what happens at long range. So this is a famous result that we have a van der Waals force, which is the instantaneous force. And when propagation effects come into play, we have to take this goes often by the name Casimir-Polder potential. The moment when propagation effects come into play, when radiation plays a role, we get a different power law. So again, I'm just playing with ideas. I'm taking a train of thought, atoms fluctuate. Another train of thought, electromagnetic fields propagate and just see what are the ramifications, what are the consequences. So now I want to eventually give you a treatment which has both aspects in one. And this is our diagrammatic treatment. First, before I do that, do you have any idea what distinguishes the short range from the long range potential? So you have two atoms. You pull them apart. At what distance do you have the 1 over r to the 6 physics? At what distance do you have the 1 over r to the 7 physics? When the distance is the wavelengths of the atomic transition, that's the only thing which matters. You don't get it immediately from here because I used an instantaneous potential which didn't have any scale. And here I said, we have vacuum fluctuations of all wavelengths. So here I had a picture which clearly works at long separation and propagation effects are built in because it's the vacuum fluctuation which sort of acted at position A and B. And the wavelengths, the propagation is part of the formulation. But yes, Boris conjectured that it is the wavelengths of the atom. The wavelengths of the resonant radiation is correct. But I want to show you now how we can obtain this result in a, I think, really elegant and beautiful way by looking at the diagrams we have just learned. OK. We probably just have time to do that. Yeah. Any questions here? The reason why I want to show you diagrammatically are actually twofold. One is it's really beautiful how it comes out. But the second thing is when I introduced the Feynman diagrams and all this formulation in terms of propagators, I gave you a wonderful picture. But in the end, I reduced it to first and second order perturbation theory. So I want to show you at least one non-trivial example where you would not get the result easily without this formalism. So enjoy one non-trivial application of diagrams. OK. So if you follow the systematic way how we have set up our formulation of quantum electrodynamic with the photon field, the quantized photon field, then the two neutral atoms have no direct Coulomb interaction. I just want to point that out because a few minutes ago, when I said a classical system is just Coulomb field, each charge element has a Coulomb potential with the other charge element. This was just the opposite approach. But in our QED formulation, we have solved our soul. We have said we only regard the near field, the longitudinal field, as belonging to the atoms. Everything which happens at longer range is included in our atom photon Hamiltonian. So therefore, there is no direct Coulomb interaction through the longitudinal field. Everything now has to come from the interaction, the perturbation operator, for the quantized radiation field. And therefore, we must get it out. We have one atom at D, one at D prime. I think that's how it's. I'm using now the nomenclature which is used in atom photon interaction, pages 121 to 126. And so there is one atom at the unprimed location, one atom at the primed location. And everything has to come out now of the formulation of the quantized radiation field. And we have discussed the lengths that the transverse electric field become operators A plus A dagger, the dipole, the symbol for the dipole are operators acting on the atoms. We've done all that. So now we want to. So then the only thing which happens is, and this is described by A and A daggers, is the exchange of photons. So the only way how those two neutral objects can interact is through the radiation field. And through the radiation field means they have to emit photons. So I want to show you now that the Wanderweils interaction can be thought of as one atom emitting a photon. But this virtual photon is absorbed by the other atom and vice versa. And you may have heard quite often, but I'm not sure if you have seen it explicitly, that a lot of interactions in physics are actually mediated by the exchange of virtual particles. The famous example is that the nuclear force comes from a virtual exchange of pions. But then people say the Coulomb force comes from a virtual exchange of photons, but usually we don't really show you how this virtual exchange of photons work. So in that sense, I'm proud that I can show you, at least the basic outline, how virtual exchange of photons between two neutral atoms leads to the Wanderweils potential. So that's our agenda. Now the fact that this takes six pages in the book and the book is not solving all equations means if you really want to do it quantitatively, it has a certain complexity. But what I've done is I've distilled out the grand idea and which also shows you what happens when you go from short range to long range. And this is what I want to present you. And therefore, I take Venji's question and will not discuss all the modes of the electromagnetic field. I will immediately use the fact that the dominant contribution comes from modes. And since we don't have real photons, we don't have energy to create real photons when everything is in the ground state, we call them virtual photons. Virtual photons are photons which are emitted by the short time later because of Heisenberg uncertainty, you have to disappear. So the dominant contribution comes from virtual photons at the wavelength, which is d, the distance between atoms. So the frequency which will play an important role is simply the frequency of those virtual photons. And again, we already have the reason. The density of states would favor higher frequencies, but higher frequencies cancel because of the e to the ikr terms. So we only focus on those. The second thing I need is that when we do perturbation theory, the energy shift in perturbation theory, well, if you do second order, you go from the initial state to an intermediate state, and then you go from the intermediate state one to the final state. And what you have to do is you have to divide by the energy denominator. If you do higher and higher order perturbation theory in our diagrammatic presentation, that means we have propagators at intermediate energies. And I told you that the time an atom can spend in an intermediate state is 1 over the energy defect. And if you integrate the e to the i energy defect factor over time, you get something which is proportional to 1 over delta e. So therefore, if you perform the time integration of the perturbation analysis, you find by integrating over the short time particles spent in the intermediate state, you actually generate those energy denominators. That's actually the relationship between the time propagation I showed you earlier. And when you integrate over the time, you get for this intermediate state a contribution which is 1 over the energy defect over the intermediate state. So therefore, if we go now to higher order perturbation theory, we simply have a product of matrix elements in the enumerator and in the denominator, we have a product of energy defects. You're using that all the time for second order perturbation theory, but the structure is that you can just sort of daisy chain the expression and you get higher order perturbation theory. So therefore, all we will have to understand to figure out what happens when virtual photons are exchanged, I will just show you two relevant diagrams and which just look, we stare at the diagrams and figure out what are these denominators, what are those energy defects. And we will find that there is a difference at long range and short range. So that's the agenda. So we need two energies. One energy is the energy of the virtual photon which is exchanged. And the second energy of frequency is the resonant frequency of the atom. So let's look at two relevant diagrams. So one is atom A, one is atom B. We are interested in interactions between atoms in the ground state. And after sufficiently long time, both atoms have to be back in the ground state. Let me just get this organized. 1, 2, 3, 4. And we will, the result is obtained in fourth order perturbation theory. It has to be fourth order because we need photon exchange. To emit a photon here, absorb it here is second order. But then one atom is in the excited state and this can't be. So a second photon is required to undo the effect. So we need exchange of photon pairs. Each exchange means absorption and emission. That means two vertices. And photon pairs means another two. So we need fourth order perturbation theory. OK, but it's much, much easier than you think. So we have a ground state atom. And now the action starts. This is the first vertex. It emits a photon. The photon is absorbed by the other atom, which puts the atom into the excited state. This atom is also in the excited state, of course. And then we know the atom cannot stay in the excited state for a long time. It can now emit a second photon, which brings it back to the ground state. And the second photon is absorbed by atom B and puts the atom back into the ground state. So this is one relevant diagram. And let me analyze it in the energy defects. Here, in the first intermediate step, the energy defect is, well, we have ground, ground. This is sort of our reference. But now we have put one atom into the excited state that costs energy omega naught. And we have created one photon omega. Here, in that time step, there are no photons, but there are two excited atoms. And in the third time step, we have still one atom in the excited state and one photon. Now, this is one relevant class. I mean, you can now use permutations that atom B excites photons first and such. But the structure of many of these diagrams will be the same that we have those three energy defects. But now we have another possibility. And this is one atom emits a photon. But it feels it doesn't want to be excited because the excitation energy is so precious. It wants to immediately return to the ground state. So we could have a situation that the atom fires a second photon before the first photon is absorbed. So the diagram, the relevant diagram, is now this. So the atom started in the ground state, is in the excited state. But as soon as possible, goes back to the ground state. And the other atom starts out in ground state, is in the excited state, and is back in the ground state. So what we have here is we have, again, three intermediate steps. In the first step, of course, we have an excited atom and a photon. But now in the interim, and we have the same here. But now the difference is that in the intermediate step, our energy defect is not two atomic excitations. It is two photonic excitations. and now we want to, we want to compare those two diagrams for short and for long range. And it becomes clear that short range is where the frequency of the photon, its wavelength is lambda, short range means high frequency. The frequency of the photon is larger than the atomic excitation energy. Or that means the distance is smaller than the resonant wavelengths of the photon. Whereas long range is that the atomic excitation is more precious than the photonic excitation. OK, so I need three more minutes. So it just fits into the class time. So we are here in the limit that omega is longer is larger than omega naught. So that means if we take now the product of the free energy denominators, omega dominates over omega naught. So it will have the structure omega, omega naught, omega. Omega, omega naught, omega. Whereas at long range omega naught dominates, we have omega naught, omega naught, omega naught. So the structure of the product of energy denominated is 1 over omega naught. If you look at on the right hand side, we have replaced in the intermediate part in the propagator the energy defect by omega naught by omega. So therefore, in this case, we have 1 over omega cube and 1 over omega naught square omega. So we know that when we sum up over diagrams, we have to sum up over all possible diagrams. And the ones which dominate at short range are those ones. And at long range are the other ones. So in other words, at short range, one photon is exchanged and disappears. And then the next photon comes. But at long range, we have an exchange that one atom sends out two photons almost simultaneously. And the other atom absorbs them. Because it sends them out simultaneously. Because here, we are talking about long wavelength photons. And photons are cheaper, rather send out two photons before you spend too much time in the excited state. OK, let's wrap it up. Since omega is proportional to 1 over the wavelength, which was, and I said the photons we are concentrating is the photons which have wavelengths of the distance d. So what we are realizing now is that if you just compare those diagrams at long range, we go from omega squared to 1 over omega squared to 1 over omega. So at long range, we have an additional factor of omega, which is 1 over d. And so now, if you assume, I can't show you that without solving the real problem. But if you assume that at short range, we have 1 over r to the 6th Wanderwald's potential, then at least I've proven to you that at long range, you get one more power in the distance. And this is a transition from an instantaneous potential, where propagation effects do not matter to what is called a retarded potential. So that's all I wanted to show you about interactions between two neutral atoms. Are there any questions? Timon? Does it matter the direction of the photons that we drew? For example, can atom A emit to B? V absorbs to B, emits to A? Rather than B. In practice, it matters. When you solve it, you have to sum over all possibilities. Remember, quantum mechanically, the system does everything. It doesn't care whether it's allowed or not. It tries everything out, whether it's allowed or not, it tries everything out, whether it violates energy or not, and you have to sum over everything. But if you then analyze all the possible diagrams, you will actually figure out that no matter what you do, what permutation of photons and atoms you have, the fourth order diagrams will be such that they are always distinguished by in this intermediate zone, whether you have two atomic excitations or two photonic excitations. And so what I drew for you were the two diagrams which are representative for a whole class of diagrams here. But absolutely, yes, you're right. OK, so that's all about neutral atoms. I know you have spring break next week. MIT spring break. Maybe that's good news for the Harvard people. When is Harvard spring break? It just finished. OK, so you have at least for this class, you have a second spring break. So we are not yet finished with Wanderwald's and Kassinger interactions, but we finished the neutral atoms. And on Monday after spring break, we talk about interactions between metal plate and atoms in two metal plates.
 The following content is provided under a Creative  Commons license.  Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to  offer high quality educational resources for free.  To make a donation or view additional materials from  hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare at  ocw.mit.edu.  So the subject here is about that we want to understand  interactions between neutral objects.  So let's start in a very basic way by saying we have an  atom A. We have an atom B.  They are separated by a distance r.  And we want to know what is the force between them.  In a semi-classical picture, we would say that everything  is the force which is responsible for that must be  the Coulomb force.  So the atom A and B consist of charges.  So we should find the charge density in our system A, the  charge density of B. We take the Coulomb energy and we  integrate over the volume.  And this is how in E and M, in the most general way, you  would write down the electrostatic energy of a  system.  You take all charges, each charge has a Coulomb potential  with the other charge and you sum and integrate over  everything.  But for objects which are localized and we can do  multipole expansion, our objects are neutral, neutral  atoms, so therefore there is no Coulomb term.  And the next term is the dipole.  So therefore, starting with classical physics, we would  find that the interaction of those charge density  distributions, one for atom A, one for atom B, should  actually interact with this Hamiltonian H prime.  OK.  But now, if we look at it classically, we find that  classically, the expectation value for the dipole operator  of each atom is 0.  But you will also find, if you said, well, OK, that's what I  expect, because an atom is in isotropic space, how can it  have a dipole moment?  But maybe what could happen is, if there is a fluctuation of  a dipole moment here and a fluctuation there and the  fluctuations are correlated, then the two systems may  repel or attract each other.  So therefore, when we are talking about fluctuations,  we are talking about expectation values for d  square, but also in classical physics, this is exactly 0.  So what classical physics tells us, it says, in classical  physics, it costs more energy to create a dipole moment, or  even a fluctuating dipole moment, than one gets back from  the dipole interaction.  So the system will never spontaneously form some form of  dipole moment.  And in classical physics, two neutral atoms will have no  attraction at all.  So it costs more energy.  So now we have to do quantum mechanics.  And as so often, I have to go through a classical argument  to make you wonder about the quantum mechanical result,  because the quantum mechanical result, you're used to it.  You've heard about the Wanderwald's interaction,  but now you know that there is really  something quantum at work.  In quantum mechanics, the expectation value of the  square of the dipole operator is not 0.  I mean, you can see that if you have an electron which is in  a harmonic oscillator, and if it is at the bottom of the  oscillator, it has less energy.  So the dipole moment for a charge system is related  to between electron and proton to the displacement operator  r.  And even if you have an equilibrium position, like  in a harmonic oscillator where r is equal to 0, r square,  the expectation value is not 0, because whatever your stable  equilibrium is, you will have 0 point fluctuations around it.  And so therefore, now in quantum physics, it's not that we  have to provide energy to create a d square.  We have it.  We have it by necessity because of non-commuting operators,  because of the nature of quantum physics.  So now the fact that we have fluctuating dipole moments  already, that means if now the fluctuating dipole moments  between the two atoms are synchronized, this will then  lead to a non-vanishing average force between the atoms.  So that's sort of the idea.  But the good thing is you don't even have to know about it,  about fluctuations and all that.  You just take, and this is your homework, you just take the  operator H prime, and look what happens when you have an  atom in the ground in excited state, and what happens when  you have both atoms in the ground state.  In the first case, you get the leading result in first order  perturbation theory.  For two ground state atoms, you have to go to second order.  In first order, the potential is 1 over r cubed.  And you will calculate the C3 coefficient.  In second order, you get the Wanderwald's potential, which  is 1 over r to the 6.  And it's fairly straightforward to calculate the C6 coefficient.  Any questions?  So let me reemphasize.  The beauty of this perturbation resulted in so simple, but  the downside is you don't really understand what you're doing.  I mean, you're solving Schrodinger equation, you find an  expectation value, but the nature of the effect, how it is  related to fluctuation, what is really behind it, is  sometimes obscured.  So let me give you one interpretation which I really  like.  And I learned that actually from Dan Kleppner.  When he taught the atomic physics course at MIT 20 years  ago, that was one element of it.  And I told you at the beginning that I'm actually  proud that our atomic physics course has hopefully kept the  best of the decade-long tradition of teachers like  Norman Ramsey, Dan Kleppner, and Dave Bridgshard.  So this is now really due to Dan Kleppner.  And I will later today actually post Dan Kleppner's  original lecture notes about this effect.  So we want to understand the Wanderwald's force in a  completely different system.  And I think that helps.  We have two LC circuits.  This is L, C, C, L. And what happens is the two  capacitors are closed.  So there is a stray field of one capacitor reaching the  other capacitor.  So I won't go through the detailed math here because  it's not necessary.  But what we have here is we have two coupled systems, two  coupled capacitors.  And the only thing I want to use is that the stray field of  the capacitor has a dipolar characteristic and it decays  with 1 over r cubed.  So what we have right now is each LC circuit, when it's  isolated, has a resonance frequency of omega naught.  But now when we have two pendulums, two oscillators  which are coupled, we get two modes which are omega plus  and minus.  And if we simply solve for two modes and they have some  coupling, well, we get an upshift and downshift by  the coupling.  But if we look more carefully at the solution for two  coupled modes, it has also a quadratic effect which is  sometimes neglected, but it's there.  So this is, in general, what you will find if you  couple two modes.  Now in quantum mechanics, when we ask for the oscillator in  the ground state, we can find the zero point energy.  And so the two energy in the ground state is 1 half the  zero point energy in the mode plus, in the mode minus.  The first order coupling term, the 1 over r cubed, cancels  out, but what remains is a contribution which is 1 over r  to the 6.  So we need quantum physics.  We need, because in classical physics, the ground state of  the LC circuit is nothing happens.  No charge, no current, no nothing.  I mean, this is a classical ground state and you would  not get any effect.  So realize that this Wanderwald's potential  requires quantum mechanics and it is due to the zero point  energy of the atomic oscillators.  Just hold the thought.  When we talk about atoms in the electromagnetic field, we  have two oscillators.  We have a harmonic oscillator which is a fluctuating dipole  moment in each side of the atom.  But we have many, many harmonic oscillators in between which  is the electromagnetic field.  During the course of this lecture, I will refer to both  the zero point energy of the atomic oscillator and the  zero point energy of the oscillator which is the  electromagnetic field.  And to give you the result at the end, I will sort of  explain different effects by the zero point oscillation of  the atoms, other effects by the zero point oscillation of  the electromagnetic field.  But at the end of this section, which is probably after  spring break on Monday, I will actually tell you that you  have to be careful.  If you have quantum physics, you have to use a consistent  description, and you always need that both the field and  the atoms are quantized and have zero point fluctuations.  And when I'm telling you now that the Van der Waals  potential is only to zero point fluctuations of the atomic  oscillator, there may be another way of getting the same  result by looking at the zero point fluctuations of the  electromagnetic field.  So I just want you to take what I'm saying.  You are not saying you anything wrong, but it may not be  the only way of expressing it.  And I want you sort of just to pay attention to it.  So but certain effects can be simpler described by simply  looking at the atomic oscillators.  Why do we need the quantized electromagnetic field when all  we want to do is have a stray field  coupling two capacitors?  So we want to always learn about the simplest way to  understand an effect.  But then in the end, there are maybe certain subtleties.  But let's keep it simple.  So it's a zero point energy of the two oscillators.  And maybe let me emphasize this by translating this  description, what we learned from the capacitors.  Let me give you the equivalent description of the atom.  So an atom will never have in free space a spontaneous  dipole moment.  But because of zero point oscillation, it will have a  dipole moment squared.  So what happens now is, let's say at some moment, we have a  fluctuation.  One atom happens to have a fluctuation of the dipole  moment.  This creates an electric field at the position of the  atom B.  So this is a fluctuating field.  The fluctuating field, because there's a finite  polarizability, induces a dipole moment of the atom, DB.  I will later introduce polarizabilities, but here it's  just proportional to EB.  So that's proportional to DA over R cubed.  So now, we have no longer randomly fluctuating dipole  moments with DA, DB, which are out of phase, positive and  minus, cancels out.  We have a dipole moment, DA, which creates through  polarizability an aligned dipole moment, DB.  And for those, we have now the dipole-dipole interaction,  which is DBDA over R cubed.  And when DA changes sign, so the product of them will  always stay the same.  And now we find that we have an interaction.  If you look, DB was 1 over R cubed.  And if you multiply that with the R cubed of the dipole-dipole  interaction, we obtain, in a very different way, the  Wanderwald's potential, which is 1 over R through the 6.  So therefore, what we can take away from that is that  the 1 over R to the 6 potential is caused by the 0 point  fluctuations of the atomic dipole moments.  OK.  So now you have already three different ways to look at the  Wanderwald's potential.  One is just doing perturbation theory, not  understanding anything.  The second one is the ground state of two coupled  oscillators, aller two capacitors.  And finally, the fact that spontaneous fluctuations create  stimulated fluctuations.  And then there is a quadratic term which doesn't vanish.  OK.  Well, let's now consider that the electromagnetic field, that  there is an electromagnetic field, until now we have not  really used the fact that we have an  electromagnetic field with photons.  And the electromagnetic fields, each mode is a  harmonic oscillator.  And each mode of the electromagnetic field has 0  point fluctuations of itself.  So let us now discuss what can the vacuum fluctuations of  the electromagnetic field do for us.  Well, if we have fluctuations, momentary fluctuations of  the electric field of the vacuum, the fluctuation at  position A and position B will induce now dipole moments of  the atom A and B by multiplying with the atomic  polarizability.  And if you assume, I say a little bit more about it, that  we're talking about a long wavelength fluctuation of the  electric field, then the two dipole moments, which are  induced by those vacuum fluctuations, are actually in  phase.  So the key word is now that the vacuum fluctuations create  correlated dipole moments.  So the dipole moments are no longer independently  fluctuating by themselves.  So if you write down now the dipole interaction, we will  find a result which is proportional to the product  of the two polarizabilities.  The dipole interaction has an intrinsic spatial dependence,  which is 1 over r cubed.  But now the important term is that we have to calculate the  correlation function of the electric field at position A  and position B, and these are the vacuum fluctuations.  I'm not doing the calculation because it would be  somewhat messy.  I will post on the web a fairly easy to read paper by Larry  Spruch in physics today, and he gives you a little bit more  details.  But you have already the physics in this equation.  What you should use now is you have to use the density of  modes, and for each mode, the zero point energy, 1 half h  per omega.  And then what you get is you get an interaction which is 1  over r to the 7.  Yes, Benji?  When you're counting here only the dipole moment which are  insects, right?  So they're coming from the fluctuation of longerness  in the air.  Yes.  And what is the effect of those?  But they are in the electric field fluctuation from vacuum.  So what are the effect of those shutter waves?  Because higher energy is a huge issue.  Excellent question.  Actually, I need that in 10 minutes I need exactly the  answer to your question.  So let me give you the answer right now.  If you look at this expression, there are two things  which come into place.  One is we have now two atoms separated by a distance r  which is rA minus rB.  If you take now high frequency modes which have very  short wavelengths and you integrate in some  over all of them, it's pretty clear that you will get plus  and minus which will completely average out.  So it seems very clear that the modes with wavelengths lambda  shorter, definitely much shorter than r, average out.  So therefore, the bulk of the contribution will actually  come from the modes with wavelengths smaller than r.  But now there is something else.  The density of states for the electromagnetic field  dramatically increases with frequency omega.  So we have many more modes at short wavelengths.  So therefore, the argument says, well, the long wavelengths  mode up to wavelengths r are the dominant ones.  They don't average out.  But because the density of modes increases, the shorter  the wavelengths is, by far the dominant contribution will  come from the modes which are centered around lambda equals r.  So the density of modes implies now  that those modes will dominate.  So that's the answer.  But ultimately, you have to put everything into an equation,  have an integral solve the integral, do some approximation,  and you will exactly see from the density of modes  that the very long wavelengths don't contribute.  And you will also see that because of rapid averageings  of e to the ikr phase factors, the high frequency modes  will not contribute.  OK, so we have now two different power laws.  One is 1 over r to the 6, and one is 1 over r to the 7.  So let's explain that now.  So we obtained the 1 over r6 by using the uncertainty  principle for atoms.  And here we have used the uncertainty principle,  the zero point fluctuations for electromagnetic waves.  When we derived the 1 over r6 potential,  we actually used simply the electrostatic instantaneous  Coulomb field, dipole field.  And this is only valid for short range  when I said we have a fluctuation,  and the fluctuation created another one, which was in phase.  But if one fluctuation has to send out an electromagnetic wave,  the second fluctuation may not be in it.  When propagation effects come into play,  there's a time lag between the two oscillators  may actually be out of phase.  So we really assumed in the derivation  without ever saying it explicitly  that there are no propagation effects.  And this is called the short range potential,  whereas for the second argument that we said  we have two distant atoms which get  synchronized by being driven by fluctuations  of the electromagnetic wave at wavelength lambda equals r.  This is what happens at long range.  So this is a famous result that we  have a van der Waals force, which is the instantaneous force.  And when propagation effects come into play,  we have to take this goes often by the name  Casimir-Polder potential.  The moment when propagation effects come into play,  when radiation plays a role, we get a different power law.  So again, I'm just playing with ideas.  I'm taking a train of thought, atoms fluctuate.  Another train of thought, electromagnetic fields  propagate and just see what are the ramifications,  what are the consequences.  So now I want to eventually give you a treatment which  has both aspects in one.  And this is our diagrammatic treatment.  First, before I do that, do you have any idea  what distinguishes the short range  from the long range potential?  So you have two atoms.  You pull them apart.  At what distance do you have the 1 over r to the 6 physics?  At what distance do you have the 1 over r to the 7 physics?  When the distance is the wavelengths  of the atomic transition, that's the only thing which matters.  You don't get it immediately from here because I  used an instantaneous potential which didn't have any scale.  And here I said, we have vacuum fluctuations  of all wavelengths.  So here I had a picture which clearly  works at long separation and propagation effects are built  in because it's the vacuum fluctuation which  sort of acted at position A and B. And the wavelengths,  the propagation is part of the formulation.  But yes, Boris conjectured that it  is the wavelengths of the atom.  The wavelengths of the resonant radiation is correct.  But I want to show you now how we can obtain this result  in a, I think, really elegant and beautiful way  by looking at the diagrams we have just learned.  OK.  We probably just have time to do that.  Yeah.  Any questions here?  The reason why I want to show you diagrammatically are actually  twofold.  One is it's really beautiful how it comes out.  But the second thing is when I introduced the Feynman diagrams  and all this formulation in terms of propagators,  I gave you a wonderful picture.  But in the end, I reduced it to first and second order  perturbation theory.  So I want to show you at least one non-trivial example  where you would not get the result easily  without this formalism.  So enjoy one non-trivial application of diagrams.  OK.  So if you follow the systematic way  how we have set up our formulation of quantum electrodynamic  with the photon field, the quantized photon field,  then the two neutral atoms have no direct Coulomb interaction.  I just want to point that out because a few minutes ago,  when I said a classical system is just Coulomb field,  each charge element has a Coulomb potential  with the other charge element.  This was just the opposite approach.  But in our QED formulation, we have solved our soul.  We have said we only regard the near field, the longitudinal  field, as belonging to the atoms.  Everything which happens at longer range  is included in our atom photon Hamiltonian.  So therefore, there is no direct Coulomb interaction  through the longitudinal field.  Everything now has to come from the interaction,  the perturbation operator, for the quantized radiation field.  And therefore, we must get it out.  We have one atom at D, one at D prime.  I think that's how it's.  I'm using now the nomenclature which  is used in atom photon interaction, pages 121 to 126.  And so there is one atom at the unprimed location,  one atom at the primed location.  And everything has to come out now  of the formulation of the quantized radiation field.  And we have discussed the lengths  that the transverse electric field become operators A  plus A dagger, the dipole, the symbol for the dipole  are operators acting on the atoms.  We've done all that.  So now we want to.  So then the only thing which happens is,  and this is described by A and A daggers,  is the exchange of photons.  So the only way how those two neutral objects can interact  is through the radiation field.  And through the radiation field means  they have to emit photons.  So I want to show you now that the Wanderweils interaction  can be thought of as one atom emitting a photon.  But this virtual photon is absorbed by the other atom  and vice versa.  And you may have heard quite often,  but I'm not sure if you have seen it explicitly,  that a lot of interactions in physics  are actually mediated by the exchange of virtual particles.  The famous example is that the nuclear force comes  from a virtual exchange of pions.  But then people say the Coulomb force  comes from a virtual exchange of photons,  but usually we don't really show you  how this virtual exchange of photons work.  So in that sense, I'm proud that I can show you,  at least the basic outline, how virtual exchange of photons  between two neutral atoms leads to the Wanderweils potential.  So that's our agenda.  Now the fact that this takes six pages in the book  and the book is not solving all equations  means if you really want to do it quantitatively,  it has a certain complexity.  But what I've done is I've distilled out the grand idea  and which also shows you what happens when you go from short  range to long range.  And this is what I want to present you.  And therefore, I take Venji's question  and will not discuss all the modes of the electromagnetic  field.  I will immediately use the fact that the dominant contribution  comes from modes.  And since we don't have real photons,  we don't have energy to create real photons  when everything is in the ground state,  we call them virtual photons.  Virtual photons are photons which are emitted by the short time  later because of Heisenberg uncertainty,  you have to disappear.  So the dominant contribution comes from virtual photons  at the wavelength, which is d, the distance between atoms.  So the frequency which will play an important role  is simply the frequency of those virtual photons.  And again, we already have the reason.  The density of states would favor higher frequencies,  but higher frequencies cancel because of the e to the ikr  terms.  So we only focus on those.  The second thing I need is that when we do perturbation  theory, the energy shift in perturbation theory,  well, if you do second order, you go from the initial state  to an intermediate state, and then you  go from the intermediate state one to the final state.  And what you have to do is you have  to divide by the energy denominator.  If you do higher and higher order perturbation theory  in our diagrammatic presentation,  that means we have propagators at intermediate energies.  And I told you that the time an atom can  spend in an intermediate state is 1 over the energy defect.  And if you integrate the e to the i energy defect factor  over time, you get something which  is proportional to 1 over delta e.  So therefore, if you perform the time integration  of the perturbation analysis, you  find by integrating over the short time particles  spent in the intermediate state, you actually  generate those energy denominators.  That's actually the relationship between the time  propagation I showed you earlier.  And when you integrate over the time,  you get for this intermediate state a contribution which  is 1 over the energy defect over the intermediate state.  So therefore, if we go now to higher order perturbation  theory, we simply have a product of matrix elements  in the enumerator and in the denominator,  we have a product of energy defects.  You're using that all the time for second order perturbation  theory, but the structure is that you can just sort of daisy  chain the expression and you get higher order perturbation  theory.  So therefore, all we will have to understand  to figure out what happens when virtual photons are exchanged,  I will just show you two relevant diagrams  and which just look, we stare at the diagrams  and figure out what are these denominators,  what are those energy defects.  And we will find that there is a difference at long range  and short range.  So that's the agenda.  So we need two energies.  One energy is the energy of the virtual photon  which is exchanged.  And the second energy of frequency  is the resonant frequency of the atom.  So let's look at two relevant diagrams.  So one is atom A, one is atom B. We  are interested in interactions between atoms  in the ground state.  And after sufficiently long time,  both atoms have to be back in the ground state.  Let me just get this organized.  1, 2, 3, 4.  And we will, the result is obtained in fourth order  perturbation theory.  It has to be fourth order because we need photon exchange.  To emit a photon here, absorb it here is second order.  But then one atom is in the excited state and this can't be.  So a second photon is required to undo the effect.  So we need exchange of photon pairs.  Each exchange means absorption and emission.  That means two vertices.  And photon pairs means another two.  So we need fourth order perturbation theory.  OK, but it's much, much easier than you think.  So we have a ground state atom.  And now the action starts.  This is the first vertex.  It emits a photon.  The photon is absorbed by the other atom,  which puts the atom into the excited state.  This atom is also in the excited state, of course.  And then we know the atom cannot stay in the excited state  for a long time.  It can now emit a second photon, which brings it back  to the ground state.  And the second photon is absorbed by atom B  and puts the atom back into the ground state.  So this is one relevant diagram.  And let me analyze it in the energy defects.  Here, in the first intermediate step,  the energy defect is, well, we have ground, ground.  This is sort of our reference.  But now we have put one atom into the excited state  that costs energy omega naught.  And we have created one photon omega.  Here, in that time step, there are no photons,  but there are two excited atoms.  And in the third time step, we have still  one atom in the excited state and one photon.  Now, this is one relevant class.  I mean, you can now use permutations that atom B  excites photons first and such.  But the structure of many of these diagrams  will be the same that we have those three energy defects.  But now we have another possibility.  And this is one atom emits a photon.  But it feels it doesn't want to be excited  because the excitation energy is so precious.  It wants to immediately return to the ground state.  So we could have a situation that the atom fires a second photon  before the first photon is absorbed.  So the diagram, the relevant diagram, is now this.  So the atom started in the ground state,  is in the excited state.  But as soon as possible, goes back to the ground state.  And the other atom starts out in ground state,  is in the excited state, and is back in the ground state.  So what we have here is we have, again, three intermediate  steps.  In the first step, of course, we have an excited atom  and a photon.  But now in the interim, and we have the same here.  But now the difference is that in the intermediate step,  our energy defect is not two atomic excitations.  It is two photonic excitations. and now we want to,  we want to compare those two diagrams for short and for  long range.  And it becomes clear that short range is where the frequency  of the photon, its wavelength is lambda, short range  means high frequency.  The frequency of the photon is larger than the atomic  excitation energy.  Or that means the distance is smaller than the resonant  wavelengths of the photon.  Whereas long range is that the atomic excitation is more  precious than the photonic excitation.  OK, so I need three more minutes.  So it just fits into the class time.  So we are here in the limit that omega is longer  is larger than omega naught.  So that means if we take now the product of the free energy  denominators, omega dominates over omega naught.  So it will have the structure omega, omega naught, omega.  Omega, omega naught, omega.  Whereas at long range omega naught dominates,  we have omega naught, omega naught, omega naught.  So the structure of the product of energy denominated  is 1 over omega naught.  If you look at on the right hand side,  we have replaced in the intermediate part  in the propagator the energy defect by omega naught  by omega.  So therefore, in this case, we have 1 over omega cube  and 1 over omega naught square omega.  So we know that when we sum up over diagrams,  we have to sum up over all possible diagrams.  And the ones which dominate at short range are those ones.  And at long range are the other ones.  So in other words, at short range,  one photon is exchanged and disappears.  And then the next photon comes.  But at long range, we have an exchange  that one atom sends out two photons almost simultaneously.  And the other atom absorbs them.  Because it sends them out simultaneously.  Because here, we are talking about long wavelength photons.  And photons are cheaper, rather send out two photons  before you spend too much time in the excited state.  OK, let's wrap it up.  Since omega is proportional to 1 over the wavelength, which was,  and I said the photons we are concentrating  is the photons which have wavelengths of the distance d.  So what we are realizing now is that if you just  compare those diagrams at long range,  we go from omega squared to 1 over omega squared to 1 over omega.  So at long range, we have an additional factor of omega,  which is 1 over d.  And so now, if you assume, I can't show you  that without solving the real problem.  But if you assume that at short range,  we have 1 over r to the 6th Wanderwald's potential,  then at least I've proven to you that at long range,  you get one more power in the distance.  And this is a transition from an instantaneous potential,  where propagation effects do not matter to what  is called a retarded potential.  So that's all I wanted to show you  about interactions between two neutral atoms.  Are there any questions?  Timon?  Does it matter the direction of the photons that we drew?  For example, can atom A emit to B?  V absorbs to B, emits to A?  Rather than B.  In practice, it matters.  When you solve it, you have to sum over all possibilities.  Remember, quantum mechanically, the system  does everything.  It doesn't care whether it's allowed or not.  It tries everything out, whether it's  allowed or not, it tries everything out, whether it  violates energy or not, and you have to sum over everything.  But if you then analyze all the possible diagrams,  you will actually figure out that no matter what you do,  what permutation of photons and atoms you have,  the fourth order diagrams will be such  that they are always distinguished  by in this intermediate zone, whether you  have two atomic excitations or two photonic excitations.  And so what I drew for you were the two diagrams which  are representative for a whole class of diagrams here.  But absolutely, yes, you're right.  OK, so that's all about neutral atoms.  I know you have spring break next week.  MIT spring break.  Maybe that's good news for the Harvard people.  When is Harvard spring break?  It just finished.  OK, so you have at least for this class,  you have a second spring break.  So we are not yet finished with Wanderwald's and Kassinger  interactions, but we finished the neutral atoms.  And on Monday after spring break,  we talk about interactions between metal plate and atoms  in two metal plates.
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