Interplay of roughness/modulation and curvature for surface interactions at proximity

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...

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Main Authors: Krueger, Matthias Helmut Guenter (Contributor), Golyk, Vladyslav A. (Contributor), Bimonte, Giuseppe (Author), Kardar, Mehran (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2014-07-24T16:08:49Z.
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