Ground-state van der Waals forces in planar multilayer magnetodielectrics

Abstract

Within the frame of lowest-order perturbation theory, the van der Waals potential of a ground-state atom placed within an arbitrary dispersing and absorbing magnetodielectric multilayer system is given. Examples of an atom situated in front of a magnetodielectric plate or between two such plates are studied in detail. Special emphasis is placed on the competing attractive and repulsive force components associated with the electric and magnetic matter properties, respectively, and conditions for the formation of repulsive potential walls are given. Both numerical and analytical results are presented.

16 pages, 8 figures, minor corrections

References in corpus (8)

• Experimental Observation of Quantum Reflection in the High Energy Limit
• Casimir-Polder forces: A non-perturbative approach
• Three-dimensional Casimir force between absorbing multilayer dielectrics
• Vacuum-field level shifts in a single trapped ion mediated by a single distant mirror
• Comment on Repulsive Casimir Forces
• Casimir force between dispersive magnetodielectrics
• Forces between a single atom and its distant mirror image
• The van der Waals energy of atomic systems near absorbing and dispersing bodies

Cited by in corpus (37)

• The Casimir force between real materials: experiment and theory
• Quantum levitation by left-handed metamaterials
• Demonstration of the Casimir force between ferromagnetic surfaces of a Ni-coated sphere and a Ni-coated plate
• Investigation of the Casimir interaction between two magnetic metals in comparison with nonmagnetic test bodies
• Casimir forces on atoms in optical cavities
• Measurement of the gradient of the Casimir force between a nonmagnetic sphere and a magnetic plate
• Casimir interaction between plane and spherical metallic surfaces
• Van-der-Waals potentials of paramagnetic atoms
• Dispersive interactions between atoms and non planar surfaces
• Body-assisted van der Waals interaction between two atoms
• The impact of magnetic properties on atom-wall interaction
• Born expansion of the Casimir-Polder interaction of a ground-state atom with dielectric bodies
• Magnetic materials and the problem of thermal Casimir force
• Hide it to see it better: a robust setup to probe the thermal Casimir effect
• Casimir forces in multilayer magnetodielectrics with both gain and loss
• Atom-surface physics: A review
• Van der Waals interaction and spontaneous decay of an excited atom in a superlens-type geometry
• Dynamics of thermal Casimir-Polder forces on polar molecules
• Casimir entropy for magnetodielectrics
• Classical limit of the Casimir interaction for thin films with applications to graphene
• Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a dielectric slab
• Observing the Casimir-Lifshitz Force Out of Thermal Equilibrium
• A Stern-Gerlach separator of chiral enantiomers based on the Casimir-Polder potential
• Casimir free energy and pressure for magnetic metal films
• The Nernst heat theorem for an atom interacting with graphene: Dirac model with nonzero energy gap and chemical potential
• Universal scaling laws for dispersion interactions
• Atomic states in optical traps near a planar surface
• Impact of amplifying media on the Casimir force
• Born-series approach to the calculation of Casimir forces
• Thermal Casimir Force between Magnetic Materials
• Medium-modified Casimir forces
• Local-field corrected van der Waals potentials in magnetodielectric multilayer systems
• Medium effects on the van der Waals force
• Casimir force on amplifying bodies
• Resonant Casimir--Polder forces in planar meta-materials
• Tangential Casimir force in the misaligned system: Magnetic media, real conductors, and a torque
• Casimir-Polder interaction of neutrons with metal or dielectric surfaces