First-principles theory of van der waals forces between macroscopic bodies

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Yannopapas, Vassilios ^a,b   Vitanov, Nikolay V ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; METALS; NANOPARTICLES;

FLUCTUATIONAL ELECTRODYNAMICS; MULTIPOLAR; RETARDATION;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 34648814070     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.120406     Document Type: Article

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