Intermolecular Casimir-Polder Forces in Water and near Surfaces
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2014-10-01 v1 Chemical Physics
Abstract
The Casimir-Polder force is an important long range interaction involved in adsorption and desorption of molecules in fluids. We explore Casimir-Polder interactions between methane molecules in water, and between a molecule in water near SiO2 and hexane surfaces. Inclusion of the finite molecular size in the expression for the Casimir-Polder energy leads to estimates of the dispersion contribution to the binding energies between molecules and between one molecule and a planar surface.
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@article{arxiv.1409.3988,
title = {Intermolecular Casimir-Polder Forces in Water and near Surfaces},
author = {Priyadarshini Thiyam and Clas Persson and Bo E. Sernelius and Drew F. Parsons and Anders Malthe-Sørenssen and Mathias Boström},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.3988},
year = {2014}
}
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6 pages, 5 figures