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The effect of an implicit medium on dispersive interactions of particle pairs is discussed and simple expressions for the correction relative to vacuum are derived. We show that a single point Gauss quadrature leads to the intuitive result…

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It has been found that in the media where the dielectric permittivity $\epsilon$ or the magnetic permeability $\mu$ is near zero and in transition metamaterials where $\epsilon$ or $\mu$ changes from positive to negative values, there occur…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-20 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

Since the discovery of backward-wave materials, people have tried to realize strong chiral medium, which is traditionally thought impossible mainly for the reason of energy and spatial dispersion. We compare the two most popular…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chao Zhang , Tie Jun Cui

The atomic dipole polarizability, $\alpha$, and the van der Waals (vdW) radius, $R_{\rm vdW}$, are two key quantities to describe vdW interactions between atoms in molecules and materials. Until now, they have been determined independently…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Dmitry V. Fedorov , Mainak Sadhukhan , Martin Stöhr , Alexandre Tkatchenko

We commence our study with review of dispersion interactions in electrolytes. We then reflect on how background media change atom-atom excited-state systems. To highlight the impact of nonlocal media, such as salt solutions, we predict that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 L. Inácio , A. Kurumbail , S. K. Panja , I. Brevik , M. Boström

Using the general expressions for level shifts obtained from the master equation for a small system interacting with a large one considered as a reservoir, we calculate the dispersive potentials between an atom and a wall in the dipole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. N. C. Mendes , C. Farina

We study the generic interaction of a monochromatic electromagnetic field with bi-isotropic nanoparticles. Such an interaction is described by dipole-coupling terms associated with the breaking of dual, P- and T-symmetries, including the…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-23 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Yuri S. Kivshar , Franco Nori

The phenomenon of molecular optical activity manifests itself as the rotation of the plane of linear polarization when light passes through chiral media. Measurements of optical activity and its wavelength dependence, optical rotatory…

We devise a nonlocal correlation energy functional that describes the entire range of dispersion interactions in a seamless fashion using only the electron density as input. The new functional is considerably simpler than its predecessors…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-12-27 Oleg A. Vydrov , Troy Van Voorhis

We investigate the chiral electric separation effect, where an axial current is induced by an electric field in the presence of both vector and axial chemical potentials, in a strongly coupled plasma via the Sakai-Sugimoto model with an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Shi Pu , Shang-Yu Wu , Di-Lun Yang

Metasurfaces, the two-dimensional analogues of metamaterials, are ideal platforms for sensing molecular chirality at the nanoscale, e.g. of inclusions of natural optically active molecules, as they offer large accessible areas (they are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Sotiris Droulias

Based on the chiral kinetic approach using quarks and antiquarks from a multiphase transport model as initial conditions, we study the chiral magnetic effect, i.e., the magnetic field induced separation of charged particles in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

We elaborate the quasiclassical approach to obtain the modified chiral magnetic effect in the case when massless charged fermions interact with electromagnetic fields and the background matter by the electroweak forces. The derivation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-16 Maxim Dvornikov , Victor B. Semikoz

Diagrammatic techniques are well-known in the calculation of dispersion interactions between atoms or molecules. The multipolar coupling scheme combined with Feynman ordered diagrams significantly reduces the number of graphs compared to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 Harald R. Haakh , Jürgen Schiefele , Carsten Henkel

Electron transmission through chiral molecules induced by circularly polarized light can be very different for mirror-image structures, a peculiar fact given that the electronic energy spectra of the systems are identical. We propose that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Spiros S. Skourtis , David N. Beratan , Ron Naaman , Abraham Nitzan , David H. Waldeck

In this overview paper, we investigate the dispersion of electromagnetic waves for dissipative and non-dissipative dielectric-magnetic uniaxial mediums. Changing the sign of one component of dielectric permittivity ({\epsilon}) or magnetic…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-01 Omid Khakpour , Seyed Mojtaba Rezaei Sani

The main elements and methods of chiral perturbation theory, the effective field theory of the Standard Model below the scale of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, are summarized. Applications to the interactions of mesons and baryons at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-02 Gerhard Ecker

Chirality in the mid-infrared spectral range plays a crucial role across physical, chemical, and biological sciences, yet sources of chiral infrared light do not currently exist. Their development, using principles from the mature field of…

Dual image formation for a two-dimensional object via bimodal propagation through chiral-dispersive thick lens is derived. In this article, first-order frequency-dependent material dispersion of the dielectric permittivity and the lens…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Salaheddeen Bugoffa , Hussin Ragb

Chirality is a universal feature in nature, as observed in fermion interactions and DNA helicity. Much attention has been given to chiral interactions of light, not only regarding its physical interpretation but also focusing on intriguing…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-12 Sunkyu Yu , Hyun Sung Park , Xianji Piao , Bumki Min , Namkyoo Park