ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The van der Waals energies for cylindrical and spherical single layer systems are obtained, in the nonretarded limit, from the heuristic procedure of summing the normal surface electromagnetic mode frequencies. Both the zero and finite temperature results are presented. The geometrical dependence of the energies for the cylindrical and spherical systems is shown to satisfy inequalities involving simple model dielectric configurations. The exact energies have a first-order correction to the planar case, for a large inner radius in comparison to the film thickness, which is proportional to the mean curvature with a new Hamaker coefficient. It is conjectured that this applies to arbitrarily shaped smooth films with small curvature. In the two-body summation approximation the energies factorize into a geometrical factor, for which exact analytical forms are found, and the standard Hamaker constant. The effect of geometry on the van der Waals energy is shown to be important, in that the effective Hamaker constants for curved films of inner radius r and layer thickness w rises rapidly at r∼2.6w for the cylindrical and at r∼1.8w for the spherical system .
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.465644
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