Sommerfeld's image method in the calculation of van der Waals forces

Details Sommerfeld's image method in the calculation of van der Waals forces Sommerfeld's image method in the calculation of van der Waals forces

2012-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/1201.5701v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

To appear in the proceedings of Conference on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT11)

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We show how the image method can be used together with a recent method developed by C. Eberlein and R. Zietal to obtain the dispersive van der Waals interaction between an atom and a perfectly conducting surface of arbitrary shape. We discuss in detail the case of an atom and a semi- infinite conducting plane. In order to employ the above procedure to this problem it is necessary to use the ingenious image method introduced by Sommerfeld more than one century ago, which is a generalization of the standard procedure. Finally, we briefly discuss other interesting situations that can also be treated by the joint use of Sommerfeld's image technique and Eberlein-Zietal method.

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