Body-assisted van der Waals interaction between two atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Safari, Hassan ^a   Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi ^a   Welsch, Dirk Gunnar ^a   Dung, Ho Trung ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Vietnam National University Institute of Physics   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DISPERSIONS; GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MULTILAYERS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REFLECTION;

BULK MATERIALS; GROUND-STATE ATOMS; PLANAR MULTILAYER SYSTEMS; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 33750006831     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.042101     Document Type: Article

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