Dispersion Interactions between Neutral Atoms and the Quantum Electrodynamical Vacuum
Dispersion Interactions between Neutral Atoms and the Quantum Electrodynamical Vacuum
Dispersion interactions are long-range interactions between neutral ground-state atoms or molecules, or polarizable bodies in general, due to their common interaction with the quantum electromagnetic field. They arise from the exchange of virtual photons between the atoms, and, in the case of three or more atoms, are not additive. In …