• Effective polarisability models 

      Fiedler, Johannes; Thiyam, Priyadarshini; Kurumbail, Anurag; Burger, Friedrich A.; Walter, Michael; Persson, Clas; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Parsons, Drew F.; Boström, Anders Mathias; Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Theories for the effective polarizability of a small particle in a medium are presented using different levels of approximation: we consider the virtual cavity, real cavity, and the hard-sphere models as well as a continuous ...
    • Fluid sensitive nanoscale switching with quantum levitation controlled by a-Sn/b-Sn phase transition 

      Boström, Anders Mathias; Dou, Maofeng; Malyi, Oleksandr; Parashar, Prachi; Parsons, Drew F.; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Persson, Clas (Journal article, 2018)
      We analyze the Lifshitz pressure between silica and tin separated by a liquid mixture of bromobenzene and chlorobenzene. We show that the phase transition from semimetallic α−Sn to metallic β−Sn can switch Lifshitz forces ...