Secondary ice growth mechanism for ice nuclei in the atmosphere
Materials Science
2023-03-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The study of atmospheric ice nuclei is vital for understanding the formation of precipitation and the development of cloud systems as it reveals how these tiny particles grow. A mechanism of such growth when the nuclei are in a mixed ice/water phase and quantum vacuum fluctuation-induced Casimir-Lifshitz interaction highlights the complexity and interconnection of the atmospheric processes with quantum theory. Initially of the order of in size, atmospheric ice nuclei can expand by the accumulation of water molecules from the surrounding water vapor.
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@article{arxiv.2303.05239,
title = {Secondary ice growth mechanism for ice nuclei in the atmosphere},
author = {M. Boström and Y. Li and I. Brevik and C. Persson and S. Carretero-Palacios and O. I. Malyi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.05239},
year = {2023}
}