An improved proximity force approximation for electrostatics

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2012.04.006MaRDI QIDQ1758495zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fernando C. Lombardo, F. D. Mazzitelli, Cesar Daniel Fosco

Publication date 9 November 2012

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4783

zbMATH Keywords

Casimir effectelectrostaticsproximity forces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

Abstract: A quite straightforward approximation for the electrostatic interaction between two perfectly conducting surfaces suggests itself when the distance between them is much smaller than the characteristic lengths associated to their shapes. Indeed, in the so called "proximity force approximation" the electrostatic force is evaluated by first dividing each surface into a set of small flat patches, and then adding up the forces due two opposite pairs, the contribution of which are approximated as due to pairs of parallel planes. This approximation has been widely and successfully applied to different contexts, ranging from nuclear physics to Casimir effect calculations. We present here an improvement on this approximation, based on a derivative expansion for the electrostatic energy contained between the surfaces. The results obtained could be useful to discuss the geometric dependence of the electrostatic force, and also as a convenient benchmark for numerical analyses of the tip-sample electrostatic interaction in atomic force microscopes.

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