High-sensitive measurement of long-range interaction forces between proteins

Long-Range Interaction Forces between Polymer-Supported Lipid Bilayer Membranes.

Much of the short-range forces and structures of softly supported DMPC bilayers has been described previously. However, one interesting feature of the measured force-distance profile that remained unexplained is the presence of a long-range exponentially decaying repulsive force that is not observed between rigidly supported bilayers on solid mica substrate surfaces. This observation is discuss...

Long-range interaction between polar Rydberg atoms

The most attractive and the most repulsive potential-energy curves for interaction between two Rydberg atoms in a broad superposition of internal angular momentum states are studied. The extreme Stark states have the largest dipole moments and provide the dominant contribution to the interaction which is then expressed as a long-range expansion involving the permanent multipole moments Qj of ea...

Long-range interaction between heterogeneously charged membranes.

Despite their neutrality, surfaces or membranes with equal amounts of positive and negative charge can exhibit long-range electrostatic interactions if the surface charge is heterogeneous; this can happen when the surface charges form finite-size domain structures. These domains can be formed in lipid membranes where the balance of the different ranges of strong but short-ranged hydrophobic int...

Long range magnetic interaction between Josephson junctions.

Long-range interaction between adatoms in graphene.

We present a theory of electron-mediated interaction between adatoms in graphene. In the case of resonant scattering, relevant for hydrogenated graphene, a long-range 1/r interaction is found. This interaction can be viewed as a fermionic analog of the Casimir interaction, in which massless fermions play the role of photons. The interaction is an attraction or a repulsion depending on whether t...