The boundary element approach to Van der Waals interactions

Details The boundary element approach to Van der Waals interactions The boundary element approach to Van der Waals interactions

2007-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701604v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures, RevTex

Scientific paper

10.1140/epje/i2007-10211-7

We develop a boundary element method to calculate Van der Waals interactions for systems composed of domains of spatially constant dielectric response. We achieve this by rewriting the interaction energy expression exclusively in terms of surface integrals of surface operators. We validate this approach in the Lifshitz case and give numerical results for the interaction of two spheres as well as the van der Waals self-interaction of a uniaxial ellipsoid. Our method is simple to implement and is particularly suitable for a full, non-perturbative numerical evaluation of non-retarded van der Waals interactions between objects of a completely general shape.

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