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2003
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Resonant photon tunneling enhancement of the van der Waals friction
Resonant photon tunneling enhancement of the van der Waals friction
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 adso...
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Personal Name(s): | Volokitin, A. I. |
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Persson, B. N. J. | |
Contributing Institute: |
Theorie I; IFF-TH-I |
Published in: | Physical review letters, 91 (2003) S. 106101 |
Imprint: |
College Park, Md.
APS
2003
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Physical Description: |
106101 |
DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.106101 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Kondensierte Materie |
Series Title: |
Physical Review Letters
91 |
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Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.106101 in citations.
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. |