THEORY OF INTERMOLECULAR FORCES
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: DISPERSION FORCES PHYSICAL ORIGIN: TWO POINTS OF VIEW DEFINITION AND TERMINOLOGY DISPERSION FORCES ACROSS THE SCIENCES CALCULATING DISPERSION FORCES VAN DER WAALS FORCES CASIMIR–POLDER FORCES CASIMIR FORCES MEASURING DISPERSION FORCES VAN DER WAALS AND CASIMIR–POLDER FORCES REFERENCES MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS ELEMENTS OF CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS ELECTRODYNAMICS IN FREE SPACE ELECTRODYNAMICS IN THE PRESENCE OF CHARGED PARTICLES ELECTRODYNAMICS IN MEDIA DUALITY FIELD QUANTISATION IN FREE SPACE FIELD QUANTISATION IN MEDIA ATOM–FIELD INTERACTIONS MINIMAL COUPLING MULTIPOLAR COUPLING MULTIPLE ATOMS MAGNETIC ATOMS CASIMIR FORCES BETWEEN BODIES LORENTZ-FORCE APPROACH STRESS-TENSOR APPROACH CASIMIR FORCE BETWEEN TWO PLATES PERFECTLY REFLECTING PLATES SEMI-INFINITE HALF SPACES CASIMIR–POLDER FORCES ON GROUND-STATE ATOMS PARAMAGNETIC ATOMS DIAMAGNETIC ATOMS ELECTROMAGNETIC ATOMS CHIRAL MOLECULES ATOM WITHIN PLANAR MULTILAYER SYSTEMS PERFECTLY REFLECTING PLATE HALF SPACE PLATE OF FINITE THICKNESS PLANAR CAVITY ATOM NEXT TO A SPHERE PERFECTLY CONDUCTING SPHERE LARGE OR SMALL SPHERE VAN DER WAALS FORCES BETWEEN GROUND-STATE ATOMS ELECTRIC ATOMS TWO ATOMS IN FREE SPACE BODY-ASSISTED INTERACTIONS TWO ATOMS IN FRONT OF A PLATE TWO ATOMS NEXT TO A SPHERE CONTENTS CHAPTER “ ONE DAY LAKE FOAMINGBROTH WASN’T THERE ANYMORE—IT WAS GONE SEE?” “YOU MEAN IT DRIED UP?” GLUCKUK INQUIRED “NO,” SAID THE WILL-O’-THE-WISP “THEN THERE’D BE A DRIED-UP LAKE BUT THERE ISN’T WHERE THE LAKE USED TO BE THERE’S NOTHING—ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NOW DO YOU SEE?” “A HOLE?” THE ROCK CHEWER GRUNTED 1 TAKEN FROM: R WATER?ELD, THE FIRST PHILOSOPHERS: THE PRESOCRATICS AND THE SOPHISTS (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD, 2009), P 58 , BY PERMISSION OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC 2 TAKEN FROM: R WATER?ELD, THE FIRST PHILOSOPHERS: THE PRESOCRATICS AND THE SOPHISTS (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD, 2009), P 174, BY PERMISSION OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC