Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2016
Keywords
Condensed Matter Physics, Graphene, Interdisciplinary Physics
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.011004
Abstract
Charge fluctuations in nanocircuits with capacitor components are shown to give rise to a novel type of long-ranged interaction, which coexist with the regular Casimir–van der Waals force. The developed theory distinguishes between thermal and quantum mechanical effects, and it is applied to capacitors involving graphene nanostructures. The charge fluctuations mechanism is captured via the capacitance of the system with geometrical and quantum mechanical components. The dependence on the distance separation, temperature, size, and response properties of the system shows that this type of force can have a comparable and even dominant effect to the Casimir interaction. Our results strongly indicate that fluctuation-induced interactions due to various thermodynamic quantities can have important thermal and quantum mechanical contributions at the microscale and the nanoscale.
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Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Physical Review X, v. 6, issue 1, art. 011004
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by American Physical Society in Physical Review X. It is available online: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.011004.
Scholar Commons Citation
Drosdoff, D.; Bondarev, Igor V.; Wisdom, Allan; Podogrnik, Rudolf; and Woods, Lilia M., "Charge-Induced Fluctuation Forces in Graphitic Nanostructures" (2016). Physics Faculty Publications. 27.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/phy_facpub/27
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