About The Speaker

Anatoly Svidzinsky, Research Professor at IQSE, has received two Ph.D. degrees in Physics - from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1997) and Stanford University (2001). His main research areas are theoretical Quantum Optics, and Atomic & Molecular Physics. In addition, he worked on Bose-Einstein condensation, Superconductivity, Chemical physics, and Astrophysics. Prof. Svidzinsky has about 130 publications, gave about 130 talks at Conferences and Colloquia. His citation index is 5100 and H-index is 34. He was a co-organizer of 18 National and International conferences and was elected as Fellow of the American Optical Society (2018). Also, he received second degree black belt in karate and serves as a class instructor and faculty advisor of Texas A&M University Shotokan karate club.

Event Details

If a boundary between two static media is moving with a constant superluminal velocity, or there is a sudden change of the medium properties with time, this yields generation of entangled pairs of photons out of vacuum in a two-mode squeezed state. Such an effect is quantum and is analogous to the creation of entangled particle pairs by accelerated mirrors (dynamical Casimir effect), or by an event horizon of a black hole (Hawking radiation). I will make a connection between these effects and quantum evolution of Glauber’s coupled oscillators, one of which has negative frequency, and with optical parametric amplification in nonlinear crystals.  I will also discuss the entanglement of the Minkowski vacuum. The latter yields observable effects: for example, atoms moving in causally disconnected regions can become excited in a correlated fashion.