Phonon-mediated Casimir interaction between finite mass impurities
| Autor: | Pavlov, Andrei I., Brink, Jeroen van den, Efremov, Dmitri V. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. B 98, 161410 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.161410 |
| Popis: | The Casimir effect, a two-body interaction via vacuum fluctuations, is a fundamental property of quantum systems. In solid state physics it emerges as a long-range interaction between two impurity atoms via virtual phonons. In the classical limit for the impurity atoms in $D$ dimensions the interaction is known to follow the universal power-law $U(r)\sim r^{-D}$. However, for finite masses of the impurity atoms on a lattice, it was predicted to be $U(r)\sim r^{-2D-1}$ at large distances. We examine how one power-law can change into another with increase of the impurity mass and in presence of an external potential. We provide the exact solution for the system in one-dimension. At large distances indeed $U(r)\sim r^{-3}$ for finite impurity masses, while for the infinite impurity masses or in an external potential it crosses over to $U(r)\sim r^{-1}$ . At short distances the Casimir interaction is not universal and depends on the impurity mass and the external potential. Comment: 5+7 pages, 5+6 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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