Multipole Expansion of the Retarded Interatomic Dispersion Energy Iii. the Long and Short Range Behaviour
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The long-range asymptotic expression for the multipole expansion of the retarded interatomic dispersion energy is shown to consist of contributions from electric dipole-dipole, dipolequadrupole and quadrupole-quadrupole interactions, all varying as the inverse seventh power of the interatomic separation. The general expressions for these interactions lead to short-range series expansions which extend results obtained earlier with the help of the Breit hamiltonian.
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