Equilibrium long-ranged charge correlations at the interface between media coupled to the electromagnetic radiation.
We continue studying long-ranged quantum correlations of surface charge densities on the interface between two media of distinct dielectric functions which are in thermal equilibrium with the radiated electromagnetic field. Two regimes are considered: the nonretarded one with the speed of light c taken to be infinitely large and the retarded one with a finite value of c . The analysis is based on our results obtained by using fluctuational electrodynamics [L. Samaj and B. Jancovici, Phys. Rev. E 78, 051119 (2008)]. Using an integration method in the complex plane and the general analytical properties of dielectric functions in the frequency upper half plane, we derive explicit forms of prefactors to the long-range decay of the surface charge correlation functions for all possible media (conductor, dielectric, and vacuum) configurations. The main result is that the time-dependent quantum prefactor in the retarded regime takes its static classical form for any temperature.
Jancovici
Bernard
B
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Unité Mixte de Recherche No 8627, CNRS-Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France. bernard.jancovici@th.u-psud.fr
Samaj
Ladislav
L