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Adsorbate vibrational mode enhancement of radiative heat transfer
A. I. Volokitin, B. N. J. Persson
We show that the radiative heat transfer between two solid surfaces at short separation may increase by many order of magnitude when the surfaces are covered by adsorbates. In this…
Theory of friction: contribution from fluctuating electromagnetic field
A. I. Volokitin, B. N. J. Persson
We calculate the friction force between two semi-infinite solids in relative parallel motion (velocity ), and separated by a vacuum gap of width . The friction force result f…
Resonant photon tunneling enhancement of the van der Waals friction
A. I. Volokitin, B. N. J. Persson
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 fo…
Adsorbate induced enhancement of electrostatic non-contact friction
A. I. Volokitin, B. N. J. Persson
We study the non-contact friction between an atomic force microscope tip and a metal substrate in the presence of bias voltage. The friction is due to energy losses in the sample c…