Resonant photon tunneling enhancement of the van der Waals friction
arXiv:cond-mat/0605524 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.106101
Abstract
We study the van der Waals friction between two flat metal surfaces in relative motion. For good conductors we find that normal relative motion gives a much larger friction than for parallel relative motion. The friction may increase by many order of magnitude when the surfaces are covered by adsorbates, or can support low-frequency surface plasmons. In this case the friction is determined by resonant photon tunneling between adsorbate vibrational modes, or surface plasmon modes.
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