We study the effect of two non-interacting impurity atoms near by a one-dimensional nanowire, which is modeled as a tight-binding hopping model. The virtual single-electron hopping between two impurities will induce a...We study the effect of two non-interacting impurity atoms near by a one-dimensional nanowire, which is modeled as a tight-binding hopping model. The virtual single-electron hopping between two impurities will induce an additional energy depending on the distance of two impurities, which gives a electronic Casimir–Polder effect. We find that the Casimir–Polder force between the two impurities decreases with the impurity-impurity distance exponentially.And the effects of nanowire and finite temperature on the Casimir–Polder force are also discussed in detail, respectively.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants Nos.11175044,11105021,11204028,and 11547242the Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province under Grant No.201115007+1 种基金the Foundation of Changchun University of Science and Technology under Grant No.XQNJJ-2015-04supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No.2015M580966
文摘We study the effect of two non-interacting impurity atoms near by a one-dimensional nanowire, which is modeled as a tight-binding hopping model. The virtual single-electron hopping between two impurities will induce an additional energy depending on the distance of two impurities, which gives a electronic Casimir–Polder effect. We find that the Casimir–Polder force between the two impurities decreases with the impurity-impurity distance exponentially.And the effects of nanowire and finite temperature on the Casimir–Polder force are also discussed in detail, respectively.