Microscopic theory of the noncontact van der Waals interaction: Application to layered systems

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Author: Vito Despoja
• Author: Marijan Šunjić
• Author: Leonardo Marušić
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Science; (Department of Physics)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: NATURAL SCIENCES; Physics

Abstract (english)

In this paper we introduce an efficient method for the calculation of the noncontact van der Waals interaction between two metallic slabs of arbitrary thicknesses and densities. Because of the numerical resolution, the method enables the detailed examination of transition from the classical to the intermediate region of the vdW interaction. We also demonstrate how this new microscopic formulation reduces to the classical Lifshitz formula for the van der Waals interaction. This method is applied to calculate the interaction between various planar systems and compared with some previous results.

• Keywords (english): van der Waals interaction; Lifshitz formula; coupled metallic slabs
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics
• Numbering: vol. 75, no. 4, 045422
• p-ISSN: 1098-0121
• e-ISSN: 1550-235X
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.75.045422
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:217:932232
• Publication: 2007
• Document URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.75.045422
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Public note: Copyright (2007) by the American Physical Society.
• Created on: 2019-10-16 15:33:23