Retardation turns the van der Waals attraction into a Casimir repulsion as close as 3 nm

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Boström, Mathias ^a   Sernelius, Bo E ^a   Brevik, Iver ^b   Ninham, Barry W ^c  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMOBENZENE; CASIMIR; CASIMIR FORCE; GOLD SURFACES; RETARDATION EFFECT; SILICA SURFACE; VAN DER WAALS ATTRACTION; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

GOLD; QUANTUM THEORY; SILICA;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 84855658205     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.85.010701     Document Type: Article

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