Body-assisted van der Waals interaction between two atoms

Details Body-assisted van der Waals interaction between two atoms Body-assisted van der Waals interaction between two atoms

2006-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0606080v1

Physical Review A 74 (4), 042101 (2006)

Physics

Quantum Physics

17 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.74.042101

Using fourth-order perturbation theory, a general formula for the van der Waals potential of two neutral, unpolarized, ground-state atoms in the presence of an arbitrary arrangement of dispersing and absorbing magnetodielectric bodies is derived. The theory is applied to two atoms in bulk material and in front of a planar multilayer system, with special emphasis on the cases of a perfectly reflecting plate and a semi-infinite half space. It is demonstrated that the enhancement and reduction of the two-atom interaction due to the presence of a perfectly reflecting plate can be understood, at least in the nonretarded limit, by using the method of image charges. For the semi-infinite half space, both analytical and numerical results are presented.

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