Effects of dielectric disorder on van der Waals interactions in slab geometries

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Dean, David S ^a,b   Horgan, Ron R ^a,c   Naji, Ali ^a,d,e,f   Podgornik, Rudolf ^a,g,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES IPM   (Iran)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^h JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASIMIR INTERACTIONS; DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; DIELECTRIC LAYER; DIELECTRIC TENSORS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; LONG DISTANCES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERTURBATION THEORY; RANDOM MEDIA; SEMI-INFINITE; SHORT DISTANCES; SLAB GEOMETRY; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS; WEAK DISORDER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 77952326909     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.051117     Document Type: Article

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