Abstract
We study the force of light on a two-level atom near an ultrathin optical fiber using the mode function method and the Green tensor technique. We show that the total force consists of the driving-field force, the spontaneous-emission recoil force, and the fiber-induced van der Waals potential force. Due to the existence of a nonzero axial component of the field in a guided mode, the Rabi frequency and, hence, the magnitude of the force of the guided driving field may depend on the propagation direction. When the atomic dipole rotates in the meridional plane, the spontaneous-emission recoil force may arise as a result of the asymmetric spontaneous emission with respect to opposite propagation directions. The van der Waals potential for the atom in the ground state is off-resonant and opposite to the off-resonant part of the van der Waals potential for the atom in the excited state. Unlike the potential for the ground state, the potential for the excited state may oscillate depending on the distance from the atom to the fiber surface.
Highlights
It is known that the interaction between light and an atom leads to an optical force
We study the force of light on a two-level atom near an ultrathin optical fiber using the mode function method and the Green tensor technique
We show that the total force consists of the driving-field force, the spontaneous-emission recoil force, and the fiber-induced van der Waals potential force
Summary
It is known that the interaction between light and an atom leads to an optical force. A lateral spontaneous emission recoil force may arise for an initially excited atom near a nanofiber [19, 20], a flat surface [20, 22], or a photonic topological material [23, 24] Such a lateral force appears because, in the presence of a material object, the interaction between the radiation field and the atom is chiral [15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26]. In addition to the classical guided driving field, the quantum electromagnetic field interacts with the atom leading to spontaneous emission and energy level shift
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