A functional approach to the Van der Waals interaction

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2023.169388MaRDI QIDQ6116010zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Cesar Daniel Fosco, Gerd Hansen

Publication date 13 July 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00714

zbMATH Keywords

AMO physicscold atomscondensed matter physicsmany body theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in two dimensions (31A05) Applications of functional analysis to differential and integral equations (46N20) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Atomic physics (81V45) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical mechanics in condensed matter (general) (82D03)

Abstract: Based on a microscopic model, we use a functional integral approach to evaluate the quantum interaction energy between two neutral atoms. Each atom is coupled to the electromagnetic (EM) field via a dipole term, generated by an electron bound to the nucleus via a harmonic potential. We show that the resulting expression for the energy becomes the Van der Waals interaction energy at the first non-trivial order in an expansion in powers of the fine structure constant, encompassing both the long and short distance behaviours. We also explore the opposite, strong-coupling limit, which yields a result for the interaction energy as well as a threshold for the existence of a vacuum decay probability, manifested here as an imaginary part for the effective action. In the weak-coupling limit, we also study the effect of using a general central potential for the internal structure of the atoms.

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