Resonant photon tunneling enhancement of the van der Waals friction

Details Resonant photon tunneling enhancement of the van der Waals friction Resonant photon tunneling enhancement of the van der Waals friction

2006-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605524v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 91,106101 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Published in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.106101

We study the van der Waals friction between two flat metal surfaces in relative motion. For good conductors we find that normal relative motion gives a much larger friction than for parallel relative motion. The friction may increase by many order of magnitude when the surfaces are covered by adsorbates, or can support low-frequency surface plasmons. In this case the friction is determined by resonant photon tunneling between adsorbate vibrational modes, or surface plasmon modes.

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