Van der Waals interaction between a microparticle and a single-wall carbon nanotube

Details Van der Waals interaction between a microparticle and a single-wall carbon nanotube Van der Waals interaction between a microparticle and a single-wall carbon nanotube

2007-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/0704.1752v1

Phys. Rev. B, v.75, N23, 235413-(1-8), 2007

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

16 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Physical Review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.75.235413

The Lifshitz-type formulas describing the free energy and the force of the van der Waals interaction between an atom (molecule) and a single-wall carbon nanotube are obtained. The single-wall nanotube is considered as a cylindrical sheet carrying a two-dimensional free electron gas with appropriate boundary conditions on the electromagnetic field. The obtained formulas are used to calculate the van der Waals free energy and force between a hydrogen atom (molecule) and single-wall carbon nanotubes of different radia. Comparison studies of the van der Waals interaction of hydrogen atoms with single- and multi-wall carbon nanotubes show that depending on atom-nanotube separation distance the idealization of graphite dielectric permittivity is already applicable to nanotubes with only two or three walls.

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