Anisotropic contribution to the van der Waals and the Casimir-Polder energies for CO2 and CH4 molecules near surfaces and thin films

作者：Thiyam Priyadarshini; Parashar Prachi; Shajesh K V; Persson Clas; Schaden Martin; Brevik Iver; Parsons Drew F; Milton Kimball A; Malyi Oleksandr I; Bostrom Mathias

来源：Physical Review A, 2015, 92(5): 052704.

DOI：10.1103/PhysRevA.92.052704

In order to understand why carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) molecules interact differently with surfaces, we investigate the Casimir-Polder energy of a linearly polarizable CO2 molecule and an isotropically polarizable CH4 molecule in front of an atomically thin gold film and an amorphous silica slab. We quantitatively analyze how the anisotropy in the polarizability of the molecule influences the van der Waals contribution to the binding energy of the molecule.

• 出版日期2015-11-5
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