Comment on "Casimir-Polder long-range interaction potentials between alkali-metal atoms"

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Title:	Comment on "Casimir-Polder long-range interaction potentials between alkali-metal atoms"
Authors:	SALAM, Akbar
Issue Date:	2000
Publisher:	AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
Source:	PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 6202(2)
Abstract:	It is shown that the analysis by Marinescu and You [Phys. Rev. A 59, 1936 (1999)] of the Casimir-Polder long-range interaction potential between a pair of ground-state alkali-metal atoms is incomplete. Missing is the contribution to the energy shift arising from the diamagnetic-diamagnetic interaction term. The lending term of this interaction is evaluated and found to have an inverse seventh-power dependence on interatomic separation distance.
Notes:	UCL, Dept Chem, London WC1H 0AJ, England. Limburgs Univ Ctr, Dept SBG, Theoret Scheikunde, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Hasselt, Belgium.
Document URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1942/9040
ISI #:	000088683400124
Category:	A1
Type:	Journal Contribution
Validations:	ecoom 2001
Appears in Collections:	Research publications

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