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Recalculations of long range Van der Waals potentials

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6652504
The long range Van der Waals forces between a particle and a conducting wall, and between two polarizable particles are calculated including contributions from both electric and magnetic polarizabilities. The techniques applied here of using quantum zero-point energy or semi-classical force and energy expressions have been used previously only for the case of purely electrically polarizable particles. A particle with an induced magnetic dipole moment may be repelled from a conducting wall while one with an induced electric dipole moment is attracted. The general retarded two-particle Van der Waals potential obtained is identical with that found by Feinberg and Sucher from dispersion theoretic calculations.
Research Organization:
Maryland Univ., College Park (USA). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76ER02504
OSTI ID:
6652504
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/02504-T8; TR-907; ON: DE87007136
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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