title: Imaging van der Waals Interactions.
abstract: The van der Waals interactions are responsible for a large diversity of structures and functions in chemistry, biology, and materials. Discussion of van der Waals interactions has focused on the attractive potential energy that varies as the inverse power of the distance between the two interacting partners. The origin of the attractive force is widely discussed as being due to the correlated fluctuations of electron charges that lead to instantaneous dipole-induced dipole attractions. Here, we use the inelastic tunneling probe to image the potential energy surface associated with the van der Waals interactions of xenon atoms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , Irvine, California 92697-4575, United States.
authors.forename: Zhumin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , Irvine, California 92697-4575, United States.|State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Key Laboratory for Computational Physical Sciences (MOE) & Department of Physics, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Xinyuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , Irvine, California 92697-4575, United States.
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , Irvine, California 92697-4575, United States.
authors.forename: Chi-Lun
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Chiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , Irvine, California 92697-4575, United States.|College of Physics and Materials Science, Henan Normal University , Xinxiang, Henan 453007, China.
authors.forename: Yanxing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , Irvine, California 92697-4575, United States.
authors.forename: Ruqian
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , Irvine, California 92697-4575, United States.|Department of Chemistry, University of California , Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States.
authors.forename: W
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3884-2142
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ho