Retarded and nonretarded van der Waals interactions between a cluster and a second cluster or a conducting surface

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Calbi, M M ^a   Gatica, S M ^a   Velegol, D ^b   Cole, M W ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE;

INTERATOMIC INTERACTIONS; PARIWISE ADDITIVITY; STATIC POLARIZABILITY;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 0037499961     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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