Medium-assisted van der Waals dispersion interactions involving chiral molecules
arXiv:1911.04753 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ab8081
Abstract
The van der Waals dispersion interaction between two chiral molecules in the presence of arbirary magnetoelectric media is derived using perturbation theory. To be general, the molecular polarisabilities are assumed to be of electric, paramagnetic and diamagnetic natures and the material environment is considered to possess a chiral electromagnetic response. The derived formulas of electric-chiral, paramagnetic-chiral, diamagnetic-chiral and chiral-chiral interaction potentials when added to the previously obtained contributions in literature, form a complete set of dispersion interaction formulas. We present them in a unified form making use of electric--magnetic duality. As an application, the case of two anisotropic molecules in free space is considered where we drive the retarded and non-retarded limits with respect to intermolecular distance.
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