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van der Waals energy under strong atom-field coupling in doped carbon nanotubes

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

Using a unified macroscopic QED formalism, we derive an integral equation for the van der Waals energy of a two-level atomic system near a carbon nanotube. The equation is valid for both strong and weak atom-vacuum-field coupling. By solving it numerically, we demonstrate the inapplicability of weak-coupling-based van der Waals interaction models in a close vicinity of the nanotube surface.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0404211,
  title  = {van der Waals energy under strong atom-field coupling in doped carbon nanotubes},
  author = {Igor Bondarev and Philippe Lambin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0404211},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure