The principles of the Lifshitz theory of van der Waals interaction are used to formulate and compute energies in multilayer systems. The full analysis including relativistic, temperature, and many-body effects reveals a nonadditive long-range interaction that is not predicted by earlier theories.
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Ninham et al. (1970) studied this question.
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