Spectroscopy on nanoparticles without light
Optics
2020-01-22 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
One of the most important tools in modern science is the analysis of electromagnetic properties via spectroscopy. The various types of spectroscopy can be classified by the underlying type of interactions between energy and material. In this paper we demonstrate a new class of spectroscopy based on Casimir interactions between a solid investigated object and a reference surface embedded in an environmental liquid medium. Our main example is based on the measurement of Hamaker constants upon changing the concentration of an intervening two-component liquid, where we demonstrate a possible reconstruction algorithm to estimate the frequency-dependent dielectric function of the investigated particle.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1910.00435,
title = {Spectroscopy on nanoparticles without light},
author = {Johannes Fiedler and Clas Persson and Stefan Yoshi Buhmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.00435},
year = {2020}
}