Dispersion forces between oscillators: a semi-classical treatment
- 1 October 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 5 (10) , 1447-1452
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/5/10/009
Abstract
It is shown that a semiclassical treatment of dispersion forces, based on the dependence of the zero point energy of two oscillators coupled to the electromagnetic field on their distance of separation gives the retarded and nonretarded form of the dispersion forces between them.Keywords
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