Dispersion forces in inhomogeneous planarly layered media : A one-dimensional model for effective polarizabilities
(2019) In Physical Review A 99(6).- Abstract
Dispersion forces such as van der Waals forces between two microscopic particles, the Casimir-Polder forces between a particle and a macroscopic object, or the Casimir force between two dielectric objects are well studied in vacuum. However, in realistic situations the interacting objects are often embedded in an environmental medium. Such a solvent influences the induced dipole interaction. With the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics, these interactions are mediated via an exchange of virtual photons. Via this method the impact of a homogeneous solvent medium can be expressed as local-field corrections leading to excess polarizabilities which have previously been derived for hard boundary conditions. In order to develop a... (More)
Dispersion forces such as van der Waals forces between two microscopic particles, the Casimir-Polder forces between a particle and a macroscopic object, or the Casimir force between two dielectric objects are well studied in vacuum. However, in realistic situations the interacting objects are often embedded in an environmental medium. Such a solvent influences the induced dipole interaction. With the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics, these interactions are mediated via an exchange of virtual photons. Via this method the impact of a homogeneous solvent medium can be expressed as local-field corrections leading to excess polarizabilities which have previously been derived for hard boundary conditions. In order to develop a more realistic description, we investigate a one-dimensional analog system illustrating the influence of a continuous dielectric profile.
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- Fiedler, Johannes ; Spallek, Fabian ; Thiyam, Priyadarshini LU ; Persson, Clas ; Boström, Mathias ; Walter, Michael and Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi
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- 2019-06-25
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
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- Physical Review A
- volume
- 99
- issue
- 6
- article number
- 062512
- publisher
- American Physical Society
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- scopus:85068110920
- ISSN
- 2469-9926
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.062512
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- English
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- yes
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- eb29fb01-9720-4d7a-b441-546e42af98d5
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- 2019-07-09 14:09:40
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author = {{Fiedler, Johannes and Spallek, Fabian and Thiyam, Priyadarshini and Persson, Clas and Boström, Mathias and Walter, Michael and Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi}},
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series = {{Physical Review A}},
title = {{Dispersion forces in inhomogeneous planarly layered media : A one-dimensional model for effective polarizabilities}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.062512}},
doi = {{10.1103/PhysRevA.99.062512}},
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