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Atmospheric water droplets can catalyse atom pair break-up via surface-induced resonance repulsion

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Boström, Mathias; Persson, Clas; Parsons, Drew; Ellingsen, Simen A.; Sernelius, B

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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...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorBoström, Mathias
dc.contributor.authorPersson, Clas
dc.contributor.authorParsons, Drew
dc.contributor.authorEllingsen, Simen A.
dc.contributor.authorSernelius, B
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T22:18:20Z
dc.identifier.issn0295-5075
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/71593
dc.description.abstractWe 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.
dc.publisherLes Editions de Physique
dc.sourceEurophysics Letters
dc.titleAtmospheric water droplets can catalyse atom pair break-up via surface-induced resonance repulsion
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume101
dc.date.issued2013
local.identifier.absfor040101 - Atmospheric Aerosols
local.identifier.absfor020201 - Atomic and Molecular Physics
local.identifier.absfor020699 - Quantum Physics not elsewhere classified
local.identifier.ariespublicationf5625xPUB2787
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationBoström, Mathias, Royal Institute of Technology
local.contributor.affiliationPersson, Clas, Royal Institute of Technology
local.contributor.affiliationParsons, Drew, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationEllingsen, Simen A., Norwegian University of Science and Technology
local.contributor.affiliationSernelius, B, Linkoping University
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage5
local.identifier.doi10.1209/0295-5075/101/43002
local.identifier.absseo970102 - Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences
dc.date.updated2015-12-11T07:42:48Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84874905845
local.identifier.thomsonID000315999100007
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