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Van der Waals Forces Between Ground-State Atoms

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Dispersion Forces I

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Perturbation theory within the multipolar coupling scheme is used to calculate the van der Waals potential of two electric ground-state atoms. With the aid of Feynman diagrams, the interaction is shown to depend on the classical Green’s tensor as well as the polarisabilities of the atoms. The calculation is extended to the magnetoelectric case by including all possible combinations of electric, para- and diamagnetic atoms. After discussing the van der Waals potential in free space, body-induced changes of the potential are introduced by considering two atoms next to a half space or a sphere.

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Buhmann, S.Y. (2012). Van der Waals Forces Between Ground-State Atoms. In: Dispersion Forces I. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol 247. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32484-0_5

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