Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a cylinder with application to nanosystems
Abstract
Recently the Lifshitz theory of dispersion forces was extended for the case of an atom (molecule) interacting with a plane surface of a uniaxial crystal or with a long solid cylinder or cylindrical shell made of isotropic material or uniaxial crystal. The obtained results are applicable to nanosystems. In particular, we investigate the Casimir-Polder interaction between hydrogen atoms (molecules) and multi-wall carbon nanotubes. It is demonstrated that the hydrogen atoms located inside multiwall carbon nanotubes have a lower free energy compared to those located outside. We also perform comparison studies of the interaction of hydrogen atoms between themselves and with multi-wall carbon nanotube. The obtained results are important for the problem of hydrogen storage.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0601032,
title = {Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a cylinder with application to nanosystems},
author = {G. L. Klimchitskaya and E. V. Blagov and V. M. Mostepanenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0601032},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures, iopart.cls is used, to appear in J. Phys. A (special issue: Proceedings of QFEXT05, Barcelona, Sept. 5-9, 2005)