Journal Article

PreJuSER-33531

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Resonant photon tunneling enhancement of the van der Waals friction

Volokitin, A. I. ; Persson, B. N. J.FZJ*

2003
APS College Park, Md.

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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/1366  doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.106101

Abstract: We study the van der Waals friction between two flat metal surfaces in relative motion. For good conductors, we find that normal relative motion gives a much larger friction than for parallel relative motion. The friction may increase by many orders of magnitude when the surfaces are covered by adsorbates, or can support low-frequency surface plasmons. In this case, the friction is determined by resonant photon tunneling between adsorbate vibrational modes, or surface plasmon modes.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Theorie I (IFF-TH-I)

Research Program(s):

1. Kondensierte Materie (M02)

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