Journal article
Atmospheric water droplets can catalyse atom pair break-up via surface-induced resonance repulsion
EPL (Europhysics Letters), Vol.101(4), Article 43002
2013
Abstract
We present the theory for a retarded resonance interaction between two identical atoms near a dielectric surface. In free space the resonance interaction between isotropically excited atom pairs is attractive at all atom-atom separations. We illustrate numerically how this interaction between oxygen, sulphur, hydrogen, or nitrogen atom pairs may turn repulsive near water droplets. The results provide evidence of a mechanism causing excited state atom pair breakage to occur in the atmosphere near water droplets.
Details
- Title
- Atmospheric water droplets can catalyse atom pair break-up via surface-induced resonance repulsion
- Authors/Creators
- M. Boström (Author/Creator) - Australian National UniversityC. Persson (Author/Creator) - KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyD.F. Parsons (Author/Creator) - Australian National UniversityS.Å. Ellingsen (Author/Creator) - Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyB.E. Sernelius (Author/Creator) - Linköping University
- Publication Details
- EPL (Europhysics Letters), Vol.101(4), Article 43002
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Identifiers
- 991005543436907891
- Copyright
- © Copyright EPLA, 2013.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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