• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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, ...
    • 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 ...