Premelting and formation of ice due to Casimir-Lifshitz interactions: Impact of improved parameterization for materials
arXiv:2110.12912 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.014203
Abstract
Recently, the premelting and formation of ice due to the Casimir-Lifshitz interaction, proposed in early 1990s by Elbaum and Schick [Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1713-1716 (1991)], have been generalized to diverse practical scenarios, yielding novel physical intuitions and possibilities of application for those phenomena. The properties of materials, in particular, the electrical permittivity and permeability, exert significant influences on the Casimir-Cifshitz energies and forces, and hence on the corresponding premelting and formation of ice. To address these influences in detail and explore the resulting physics, here we revisit and extend the analyses of previous work, with both the dielectric data utilized there and the latest dielectric functions for ice and cold water. While our previous results are rederived, an error there has also been spotted. For the four-layer cases considered by some of us, the existence of stable configurations depending on the initial conditions has been confirmed, and different types of stability corresponding to minima of the Casimir-Lifshitz free energy are demonstrated. As the new dielectric functions for ice and cold water deviate considerably from those used by Elbaum and Schick, their vital impacts on three- and four-layer configurations are therefore being reconsidered.
References in corpus (22)
- Observation of the thermal Casimir force
- Numerical methods for computing Casimir interactions
- Thermal corrections to the Casimir effect
- Repulsive Casimir forces between solid materials with high refractive index intervening liquids
- Measurement of the Casimir Force between 0.2 and 8 mum: Experimental Procedures and Comparison with Theory
- Premelting-Induced Smoothening of the Ice-Vapor Interface
- Experimental and theoretical investigation of the thermal effect in the Casimir interaction from graphene
- Temperature Dependence of the Casimir Force
- Self-preserving ice layers on CO2 clathrate particles: implications for Enceladus, Pluto and similar ocean worlds
- Casimir free energy of dielectric films: Classical limit, low-temperature behavior and control
- Lifshitz theory of wetting films at three phase coexistence: The case of ice nucleation on Silver Iodide (AgI)
- Quantum Electromagnetic Stress Tensor in an Inhomogeneous Medium
- Electric double layer effect in an extreme near-field heat transfer between metal surfaces
- Casimir forces in inhomogeneous media: renormalization and the principle of virtual work
- Structure and fluctuations of the premelted liquid film of ice at the triple point
- Recent measurements of the Casimir force: Comparison between experiment and theory
- Dispersion forces stabilise ice coatings at certain gas hydrate interfaces which prevent water wetting
- Lifshitz interaction can promote ice growth at water-silica interfaces
- Electric field effect in heat transfer in 2D devices
- Role of zero point energy in promoting ice formation in a spherical drop of water
- The influence of Lifshitz forces and gas on premelting of ice within porous materials
- Effects of van der Waals forces and salt ions on the growth of water films on ice and the detachment of CO bubbles