Coulomb interactions between dipolar quantum fluctuations in van der Waals bound molecules and materials

High-level methods to describe van der Waals interactions are limited due to their computational cost. This work introduces a new theoretical approach, that extends the dipolar many-body dispersion formalism to higher-order contributions, demonstrated to be applicable to practically-relevant systems...

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Main Authors: Martin Stöhr, Mainak Sadhukhan, Yasmine S. Al-Hamdani, Jan Hermann, Alexandre Tkatchenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20473-w