Equivalence of van der Waals Forces between Solids and the Surface-Plasmon Interaction
- 15 July 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 4 (2), 393-396
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.4.393
Abstract
It is shown that the well-known Lifshitz formula for the retarded van der Waals attraction between two solid half-spaces can be obtained from the zero-point energy of the interacting surface plasmons.Keywords
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