Motion of classical charged particles with magnetic moment in external plane-wave electromagnetic fields
Classical Physics
2021-06-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We study the motion of a charged particle with magnetic moment in external electromagnetic fields utilizing covariant unification of Gilbertian and Amperian descriptions of particle magnetic dipole moment. Considering the case of a current loop, our approach is verified by comparing classical dynamics with the classical limit of relativistic quantum dynamics. We obtain motion of a charged particle in the presence of an external linearly polarized EM (laser) plane wave field incorporating the effect of spin dynamics. For specific laser-particle initial configurations, we determine that the Stern-Gerlach force can have a cumulative effect on the trajectory of charged particles.
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@article{arxiv.2103.02594,
title = {Motion of classical charged particles with magnetic moment in external plane-wave electromagnetic fields},
author = {Martin Formanek and Andrew Steinmetz and Johann Rafelski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02594},
year = {2021}
}
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11 pages PR-style, 4 figures