Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 106101 (2003) [4 pages]Resonant Photon Tunneling Enhancement of the van der Waals Friction
We study the van der Waals friction between two flat metal surfaces in relative motion. For good conductors, we find that normal relative motion gives a much larger friction than for parallel relative motion. The friction may increase by many orders of magnitude when the surfaces are covered by adsorbates, or can support low-frequency surface plasmons. In this case, the friction is determined by resonant photon tunneling between adsorbate vibrational modes, or surface plasmon modes. © 2003 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.106101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.106101
PACS:
68.35.Af, 68.37.Ps, 73.20.Mf
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