Dispersion interactions between optically anisotropic cylinders at all separations: Retardation effects for insulating and semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes

A. Šiber,1 R. F. Rajter,2 R. H. French,3 W. Y. Ching,4 V. A. Parsegian,5 and R. Podgornik6,7,8 1Institute of Physics, Bijenička Cesta 46, P.O. Box 304, 10001 Zagreb, Croatia 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 13-5046, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3DuPont Company, Central Research, Experimental Station E400-5207, Wilmington, Delaware 19880, USA 4Department of Physics, University of Missouri–Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, USA 5Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA 6Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Building 9, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0924, USA 7Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and Institute of Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 8Department of Theoretical Physics, J. Stefan Institute, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Received 7 July 2009; published 16 October 2009