Premelting and formation of ice due to Casimir-Lifshitz interactions: Impact of improved parameterization for materials

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Premelting and formation of ice due to Casimir-Lifshitz interactions: Impact of improved parameterization for materials
المؤلفون: Li, Yang, Milton, Kimball A., Brevik, Iver, Malyi, Oleksandr I., Thiyam, Priyandarshini, Persson, Clas, Parsons, Drew F., Boström, Mathias
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Theory
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics, High Energy Physics - Theory
الوصف: 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, 1713-1716 (1991)], have been generalized to diverse practical scenarios, yielding novel physical intuitions and possibilities of application for those phenomena. The properties of materials, in particular, the electrical permittivity and permeability, exert significant influences on the Casimir-Cifshitz energies and forces, and hence on the corresponding premelting and formation of ice. To address these influences in detail and explore the resulting physics, here we revisit and extend the analyses of previous work, with both the dielectric data utilized there and the latest dielectric functions for ice and cold water. While our previous results are rederived, an error there has also been spotted. For the four-layer cases considered by some of us, the existence of stable configurations depending on the initial conditions has been confirmed, and different types of stability corresponding to minima of the Casimir-Lifshitz free energy are demonstrated. As the new dielectric functions for ice and cold water deviate considerably from those used by Elbaum and Schick, their vital impacts on three- and four-layer configurations are therefore being reconsidered.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.014203
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12912
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2110.12912
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.105.014203