Interplay of roughness/modulation and curvature for surface interactions at proximity
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Krueger, Matthias Helmut Guenter
Golyk, Vladyslav A.
Bimonte, Giuseppe
Kardar, Mehran
Date Issued
November 2013
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EPL (Europhysics Letters)
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Institute of Physics Publishing
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Krüger, Matthias, Vladyslav A. Golyk, Giuseppe Bimonte, and Mehran Kardar. “Interplay of Roughness/modulation and Curvature for Surface Interactions at Proximity.” EPL (Europhysics Letters) 104, no. 4 (November 1, 2013): 41001.
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Employing the proximity approximation, we show that roughness or surface modulations change the distance dependence of (power-law) interactions between curved objects at proximity. The modified scaling law is simply related to the order of the first non-vanishing coefficient of the Taylor expansion of the distribution of separations between the surfaces. The latter can in principle be estimated by scanning measurements, or computed for well characterized modulations, and then used to predict short-distance scaling behavior in disparate experiments. For example, we predict that the radiative heat transfer between a rough sphere and a plate approaches a constant with decreasing separation. Similar saturation is expected for the Casimir force between dielectric or metallic surfaces with appropriate modulations over distinct length scales.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/104/41001
