Van der Waals Interactions of Moving Particles with Surfaces of Cylindrical Geometry

Abstract

General nonrelativistic theory has been developed and the expressions obtained for the tangential (dissipative) and radial (conservative) image forces and van der Waals forces (vdW) acting on charged and neutral particles when they move parallel to the axis of a cylinder with circular cross-section, or in the space between coaxial cylinders. Numerical calculations of vdW forces have been performed for metal (Au) and dielectric (Si) materials of cylinders (filaments) and Cs atoms at velocities ~107m/s. A remarkable result is that in the case of metal cylinders (atomic filaments and chains) the dynamic vdW potential can be repulsive for certain values of the velocity–distance parameter and the characteristic atomic frequency. In the case of a Si material, the dynamic vdW potential increases relative to the static one (by modulus) when the velocity–distance parameter Vω0/R changes from zero to ~1.3 and then tends to zero.

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