The thermal Casimir-polder interaction of an atom with a spherical plasma shell

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/45/26/265301zbMATH Open1251.81099arXiv1203.2732OpenAlexW3104168557MaRDI QIDQ2899443FDOQ2899443

Authors: Nail R. Khusnutdinov 

Publication date: 30 July 2012

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The van der Waals and Casimir-Polder interaction energy of an atom with an infinitely thin sphere with finite conductivity is investigated in the framework of the hydrodynamic approach at finite temperature. This configuration models the real interaction of an atom with fullerene. The Lifshitz approach is used to find the free energy. We find the explicit expression for the free energy and perform the analysis of it for i) high and low temperatures, ii) large radii of sphere and ii) short separation between an atom and sphere. At low temperatures the thermal part of the free energy approaches zero as forth power of the temperature while for high temperatures it is proportional to the first degree of the temperature. The entropy of this system is positive for small radii of sphere and it becomes negative at low temperatures and for large radii of the sphere.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2732

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Atomic physics (81V45) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

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