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Dirac states of an electron in a circular intense magnetic field

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2017-04-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

Neutron-star magnetospheres are structured by very intense magnetic fields extending from 100 to 10 5 km traveled by very energetic electrons and positrons with Lorentz factors up to \sim 10 7. In this context, particles are forced to travel almost along the magnetic field with very small gyro-motion, potentially reaching the quantified regime. We describe the state of Dirac particles in a locally uniform, constant and curved magnetic field in the approximation that the Larmor radius is very small compared to the radius of curvature of the magnetic field lines. We obtain a result that admits the usual relativistic Landau states as a limit of null curvature. We will describe the radiation of these states, that we call quantum curvature or synchro-curvature radiation, in an upcoming paper.

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@article{arxiv.1703.05193,
  title  = {Dirac states of an electron in a circular intense magnetic field},
  author = {Guillaume Voisin and Silvano Bonazzola and Fabrice Mottez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05193},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Accepted in Physical Review D : http://journals.aps.org/prd/accepted/f2075Q13Mb71c110288178627e98766857e32b86c