• Anisotropic contribution to the van der Waals and the Casimir-Polder energies for CO2 and CH4 molecules near surfaces and thin film 

      Thiyam, Priyadarshini; Parashar, Prachi; Shajesh, K. V.; Persson, Clas; Schaden, Martin; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Parsons, Drew F.; Milton, Kimball A.; Malyi, Oleksandr; Boström, Mathias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      In order to understand why carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) and methane ( CH 4 ) molecules interact differently with surfaces, we investigate the Casimir-Polder energy of a linearly polarizable CO 2 molecule and an isotropically ...
    • Casimir forces in a plasma: possible connections to Yukawa potentials 

      Ninham, Barry W.; Boström, Mathias; Persson, Clas; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi; Sernelius, Bo. E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      We present theoretical and numerical results for the screened Casimir effect between perfect metal surfaces in a plasma. We show how the Casimir effect in an electron-positron plasma can provide an important contribution ...
    • Casimir quantum levitation tuned by means of material properties and geometries 

      Dou, Maofeng; Lui, F; Boström, Mathias; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Persson, Clas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      The Casimir force between two surfaces is attractive in most cases. Although stable suspension of nano-objects has been achieved, the sophisticated geometries make them difficult to be merged with well-established thin ...
    • Dispersion forces in inhomogeneous planarly layered media: A one-dimensional model for effective polarizabilities 

      Fiedler, Johannes; Spallek, Fabian; Thiyam, Priyadarshini; Persson, Clas; Boström, Mathias; Walter, Michael; Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Dispersion forces such as van der Waals forces between two microscopic particles, the Casimir-Polder forces between a particle and a macroscopic object, or the Casimir force between two dielectric objects are well studied ...
    • Distance-dependent sign reversal in the Casimir-Lifshitz torque 

      Thiyam, Priyadarshini; Parashar, Prachi; Shajesh, Kuloth Vayalombron; Malyi, Oleksandr; Boström, Mathias; Milton, Kimball A.; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Persson, Clas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The Casimir-Lifshitz torque between two biaxially polarizable anisotropic planar slabs is shown to exhibit a nontrivial sign reversal in its rotational sense. The critical distance $a_c$ between the slabs that marks this ...
    • Effect of excess charge carriers and fluid medium on the magnitude and sign of the Casimir-Lifshitz torque 

      Thiyam, Priyadarshini; Parashar, Prachi; Shajesh, Kuloth Vayalombron; Malyi, Oleksandr; Boström, Mathias; Milton, K. A.; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Forsman, Jan; Persson, Clas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Last year, we reported a perturbative theory of the Casimir-Lifshitz torque between planar biaxially anisotropic materials in the retarded limit [Thiyam et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 131601 (2018)], which is applied here ...
    • Equivalence of Electromagnetic Fluctuation and Nuclear (Yukawa) Forces: the π<inf>0</inf> Meson, its Mass and Lifetime 

      Ninham, Barry W.; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Boström, Mathias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      It is shown how Maxwell’s equations for the electromagnetic field with Planck quantisation of allowed modes appears to provide a semiclassical account of nuclear interactions. The mesons emerge as plasmons, collective ...
    • Finite-size-dependent dispersion potentials between atoms and ions dissolved in water 

      Thiyam, Priyadarshini; Boström, Mathias; Persson, Clas; Parsons, Drew F.; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Sernelius, Bo. E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      A non-expanded theory is used for dispersion potentials between atoms and ions dissolved in a medium. The first-order dispersion interaction between two atoms in an excited state must account for the fact that the two atoms ...
    • Full-Spectrum High-Resolution Modeling of the Dielectric Function of Water 

      Fiedler, Johannes; Boström, Mathias; Persson, Clas; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Corkery, R.; Buhmann, S. Y.; Parsons, D. F. (Journal article, 2020)
      In view of the vital role of water, exact knowledge of its dielectric function over a large frequency range is important. We report on currently available measurements of the dielectric function of water at room temperature ...
    • Ice particles sink below the water surface due to a balance of salt, van der Waals and buoyancy forces 

      Thiyam, Priyadarshini; Fiedler, Johannes; Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi; Persson, Clas; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Boström, Mathias; Parsons, Drew F. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      According to the classical Archimedes’ principle, ice floats in water and has a fraction of its volume above the water surface. However, for very small ice particles, other competing forces such as van der Waals forces due ...
    • Lifshitz interaction can promote ice growth at water-silica interfaces 

      Boström, Mathias; Malyi, Oleksandr; Parashar, Prachi; Shajesh, Kuloth Vayalombron; Thiyam, Priyadarshini; Milton, Kimball A.; Persson, Clas; Parsons, Drew F.; Brevik, Iver Håkon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      At air-water interfaces, the Lifshitz interaction by itself does not promote ice growth. On the contrary, we find that the Lifshitz force promotes the growth of an ice film, up to 1–8 nm thickness, near silica-water ...
    • Non-perturbative theory of dispersion interactions 

      Boström, Mathias; Thiyam, Priyadarshini; Persson, Clas; Parsons, Drew F.; Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Sernelius, Bo. E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Some open questions exist with fluctuation-induced forces between extended dipoles. Conventional intuition derives from large-separation perturbative approximations to dispersion force theory. Here, we present a full ...
    • Nonperturbative theory for the dispersion self-energy of atoms 

      Thiyam, Priyadarshini; Persson, Clas; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Sernelius, Bo. E.; Boström, Mathias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      We go beyond the approximate series expansions used in the dispersion theory of finite-size atoms. We demonstrate that a correct, and nonperturbative, theory dramatically alters the dispersion self-energies of atoms. The ...
    • Orientational dependence of the van der Waals interactions for finite-sized particles 

      Fiedler, Johannes; Persson, Clas; Boström, Mathias; Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi (Journal article, 2018)
      Dispersion forces, especially van der Waals forces as interactions between neutral and polarizable particles act at small distances between two objects. Their theoretical origin lies in the electromagnetic interaction ...
    • Origin of anomalously stabilizing ice layers on methane gas hydrates near rock surface 

      Li, Yang; Corkery, Robert; Carretero-Palacios, Sol; Berland, Kristian; Esteso, Victoria; Fiedler, Johannes; Milton, Kimball A.; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Boström, Mathias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Gas hydrates (GHs) in water close to freezing temperatures can be stabilised via the formation of ice layers. In a recent work [Boström et al., Astron. Astrophys., A54, 650, 2021], it was found that a surface region with ...
    • Premelting and formation of ice due to Casimir-Lifshitz interactions: Impact of improved parameterization for materials 

      Li, Yang; Milton, Kimball A.; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Malyi, Alexandr I.; Thiyam, Priyandarshini; Persson, Clas; Parsons, Drew F.; Boström, Mathias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Recently, the premelting and formation of ice due to the Casimir-Lifshitz interaction, proposed in early 1990s by Elbaum and Schick [Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1713 (1991)], have been generalized to diverse practical scenarios, ...
    • A Role for Bose-Einstein Condensation in Astrophysics 

      Ninham, Barry W.; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Malyi, Oleksandr I.; Boström, Mathias (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We revive a 60-year-old idea that might explain a remarkable new observation of a periodic low-frequency radio emission from a source at galactic distances (GLEAM-X J162759.5-523504.3). It derives from the observation that ...
    • Self-preserving ice layers on CO2 clathrate particles: Implications for Enceladus, Pluto, and similar ocean worlds 

      Boström, Mathias; Esteso, Victoria; Fiedler, Johannes; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Persson, Clas; Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi; Carretero-Palacios, Sol; Parsons, Drew F.; Corkery, Robert W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Context. Gas hydrates can be stabilised outside their window of thermodynamic stability by the formation of an ice layer – a phenomenon termed self-preservation. This can lead to a positive buoyancy for clathrate particles ...
    • The influence of Lifshitz forces and gas on premelting of ice within porous materials 

      Boström, Mathias; Malyi, Oleksandr; Thiyam, Priyadarshini; Berland, Kristian; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Persson, Clas; Parsons, Drew F. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Premelting of ice within pores in earth materials is shown to depend on the presence of vapor layers. For thick vapor layers between ice and pore surfaces, a nanosized water sheet can be formed due to repulsive Lifshitz ...
    • Tuning the Casimir-Lifshitz force with gapped metals 

      Boström, Mathias; Rizwan Khan, M.; Gopidi, H. R.; Brevik, Iver Håkon; Li, Y.; Persson, Clas; Malyi, O. I. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The Casimir-Lifshitz interaction, a long-range force that arises between solids and molecules due to quantum fluctuations in electromagnetic fields, has been widely studied in solid-state physics. The degree of polarization ...