Interplay of roughness/modulation and curvature for surface interactions at proximity

Employing the proximity approximation, we show that roughness or surface modulations change the distance dependence of (power-law) interactions between curved objects at proximity. The modified scaling law is simply related to the order of the first non-vanishing coefficient of the Taylor expansion...

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Main Authors: Krueger, Matthias Helmut Guenter, Golyk, Vladyslav A., Bimonte, Giuseppe, Kardar, Mehran
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88481
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-5912