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We derive solutions of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the isotropic van der Waals interaction in a symmetric harmonic trap, with the recent approach [arXiv:2207.09377 (2022)] to handle the multi-scale long-range potential. Asymptotic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Ruijie Du

We consider the van der Waals interaction between two ground-state atoms embedded in adjacent semi-infinite magnetodielectric media, with emphasis on medium effects on it. We demonstrate that, in this case, at small atom-atom distances the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. S. Tomas

In this work the induced van der Waals interaction between a pair of neutral atoms or molecules is considered by use of a statistical mechanical method. Commonly this interaction is obtained by standard quantum mechanical perturbation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Johan S. Høye

Based on macroscopic quantum electrodynamics in linearly and causally responding media, we study the local-field corrected van der Waals potentials and forces for unpolarized ground-state atoms placed within a magnetoelectric medium of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 Agnes Sambale , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch , Marin-Slodoban Tomas

We show that the usual sum of $R^{-6}$ contributions from elements separated by distance $R$ can give \emph{qualitatively} wrong results for the electromagnetically non-retarded van der Waals interaction between non-overlapping bodies. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 John F. Dobson , Angela White , Angel Rubio

We study theoretically the van der Waals interaction between two atoms out of equilibrium with isotropic electromagnetic field. We demonstrate that at large interatomic separations, the van der Waals forces are resonant, spatially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Yury Sherkunov

The Casimir-Polder and van der Waals interaction energy of an atom with infinitely thin sphere with finite conductivity is investigated in the framework of the hydrodynamic approach. We put the sphere into spherical cavity inside the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Nail Khusnutdinov

We apply a range of density-functional-theory-based methods capable of describing van der Waals interactions to weakly bonded layered solids in order to investigate their accuracy for extended systems. The methods under investigation are…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-05 T. Björkman , A. Gulans , A. V. Krasheninnikov , R. M. Nieminen

We use a variational wave function to calculate the energy of the interaction between external charges in the compact Abelian gauge theory in 2+1 dimensions with mixed action. Our variational wave functions preserve the compact gauge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Alex Kovner , Benjamin Svetitsky

We present an efficient implementation of the van der Waals density functional of Dion et al [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246401 (2004)], which expresses the nonlocal correlation energy as a double spacial integral. We factorize the integration…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Guillermo Roman-Perez , Jose M. Soler

I revisit the problem of the interaction between two dissimilar atoms with one atom in an excited state, recently addressed by the authors of Refs.[1-3], and for which precedent approaches have given conflicting results. In the first place,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Manuel Donaire

Ubiquitous van der Waals (vdW) interactions play a subtle yet crucial role in determining the precise atomic arrangements in solids, particularly in molecular crystals where these weak forces are the primary link between constituent…

Mutual Coulomb interactions between electrons lead to a plethora of interesting physical and chemical effects, especially if those interactions involve many fluctuating electrons over large spatial scales. Here, we identify and study in…

The exchange-correlation energy in Kohn-Sham density functional theory can be expressed exactly in terms of the change in the expectation of the electron-electron repulsion operator when, in the many-electron hamiltonian, this same operator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-08-05 Paola Gori-Giorgi , Giovanni Vignale , Michael Seidl

Entanglement may be considered a resource for quantum-information processing, as the origin of robust and universal equilibrium behaviour, but also as a limit to the validity of an effective potential approach, in which the influence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Gemmer , G. Mahler

We model the electron clouds of nucleic acids in DNA as a chain of coupled quantum harmonic oscillators with dipole-dipole interaction between nearest neighbours resulting in a van der Waals type bonding. Crucial parameters in our model are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-24 Elisabeth Rieper , Janet Anders , Vlatko Vedral

We analyze a decomposition of the Coulomb electron-electron interaction into a long-range and a short-range part in the framework of density functional theory, deriving some scaling relations and the corresponding virial theorem. We study…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Julien Toulouse , Paola Gori-Giorgi , Andreas Savin

We investigate the potential energy curves of rare-gas dimers with various ranges and strengths of interparticle interactions (nuclear-electron, electron-electron, and nuclear-nuclear interactions). Our investigation is based on the highly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Yu-Ting Chen , Kerwin Hui , Jeng-Da Chai

Quantum weak measurement has attracted much interest recently [J. Dressel et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 86, 307 (2014)] because it could amplify some weak signals and provide a technique to observe nonclassical phenomena. Here, we apply this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 M. Zhang , S. Y. Zhu

The modified static exchange model (MSEM) recently introduced by Ray [1] to study two-atomic collision processes at low and cold-energies, is used for detailed analysis of the long-range effects due to induced dipole-dipole van der Waals…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-06 Hasi Ray , Anuradha De , Deparpita Ray