Dispersion interactions between optically anisotropic cylinders at all separations: Retardation effects for insulating and semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes

作     者：A. Šiber R. F. Rajter R. H. French W. Y. Ching V. A. Parsegian R. Podgornik 

作者机构：Institute of Physics Bijenička Cesta 46 P.O. Box 304 10001 Zagreb Croatia Department of Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 13-5046 Cambridge Massachusetts 02139 USA DuPont Company Central Research Experimental Station E400-5207 Wilmington Delaware 19880 USA Department of Physics University of Missouri–Kansas City Kansas City Missouri 64110 USA Department of Physics University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts 01003 USA Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology NICHD National Institutes of Health Building 9 Bethesda Maryland 20892-0924 USA Department of Physics Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and Institute of Biophysics School of Medicine University of Ljubljana SI-1000 Ljubljana Slovenia Department of Theoretical Physics J. Stefan Institute SI-1000 Ljubljana Slovenia 

出 版 物：《Physical Review B》 (物理学评论B辑：凝聚态物质与材料物理学)

年 卷 期：2009年第80卷第16期

页      面：165414-165414页

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学科分类：07[理学] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：, (035-0352828-2837) National Science Foundation, NSF, (0609050) 

摘      要：We derive the complete form of the van der Waals dispersion interaction between two infinitely long anisotropic semiconducting/insulating thin cylinders at all separations. The derivation is based on the general theory of dispersion interactions between anisotropic media as formulated in Munday et al. [Phys. Rev. A 71, 042102 (2005)]. This formulation is then used to calculate the dispersion interactions between a pair of single-walled carbon nanotubes at all separations and all angles. Nonretarded and retarded forms of the interactions are developed separately. The possibility of repulsive dispersion interactions and nonmonotonic dispersion interactions is discussed within the framework of the formulation.